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Repair Café in Amsterdam celebrates 15th anniversary

Repair Café in Amsterdam celebrates 15th anniversary

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Repair Café in Amsterdam celebrates 15th anniversary


Fifteen years ago today, the first Repair Café was held in Amsterdam. In the years since the small event where people can take their broken items to learn from volunteers how to fix them has grown into a global phenomenon.

“We estimate that there are now more than 4,000 active community repair groups worldwide, carrying out 190,000 successful repairs each year,” said Martine Postma of Repair Café International. “These volunteers also contribute to the resilience of the neighborhood by sharing their knowledge and showing fellow citizens that repairing is possible, doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive, and can be a lot of fun too.”

To mark the 15th anniversary of the first Repair Café, the Open Repair Alliance released a report showing the growth of the community in the past decade and a half. The Alliance, established seven years ago to keep the global community of repair groups together, has record of 19,986 repair events by 1,158 repair groups in 31 countries nationwide in the past fifteen years.

Between August 2023 and July 2024, it logged 69,782 repair attempts by 776 groups. That amounts to 200 repair attempts per day.

The Dutch Repair Café Foundation celebrated the anniversary with a Repair Café XL in The Hague. “In the city where our government sits, let’s show with 100 repairmen what Repair Café stands for: for repairing, but also for cooperation, voluntary commitment, and a shared ambition for a sustainable future,” the foundation said.



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