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General information about the Repair Café

What is a Repair Café?

The Repair Café is an event that revolves around repairing things. Tools and materials are available at the Repair Café venue to carry out all kinds of repairs. On clothing, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, everyday objects, toys, etc. There are also knowledgeable volunteers on hand with repair knowledge and skills in various areas. Visitors bring broken items from home. At the Repair Café, they tackle the repairs themselves with the help of the experts. Those who have nothing to repair can have a drink at the counter or help someone else with the repair. Or get inspired at the reading table, where books on repairing and do-it-yourself are available for perusal.

Why a Repair Café?

We throw away a lot in our everyday lives. Even items that aren't broken much and could easily be reused after a simple repair. Unfortunately, repairing things has gone out of fashion for most people. They simply don't know how to repair things anymore. The knowledge of how to repair things is disappearing fast. Those who still have this knowledge are often not particularly valued by society and are unintentionally marginalized. The knowledge and skills of these people are not or only very rarely used. Repair Café changes that! People who are on the margins of society count again. A valuable practical exchange of knowledge takes place. In this way, objects are usable for longer and are not thrown away. The amount of raw materials and energy required to manufacture new products is saved. This also applies to CO2 emissions. This is because CO2 is released during the manufacture of new products and the recycling of used items.

At the Repair Café, people learn to perceive objects in a different way. And to appreciate them in a whole new way: The Repair Café contributes to a change in mentality. This is urgently needed if people are to stand up for a sustainable society. However, the focus is on the fact that Repair Café wants to show that repairing is fun and relatively easy. Come along and try it yourself!