A surprisingly festive Repair Café year
Have you ever placed a repaired present under the Christmas tree? In 2015, Mascha from the Netherlands gave her brother a headphone. Unfortunately the cord…
eSpares is new Repair Café partner
The Repair Café International Foundation has formed a new partnership with online parts store eSpares. As a result of this partnership, Repair Café organisers in…
It’s Repair Café’s birthday
The Repair Café began seven years ago. We are celebrating that with the International Repair Café Week. During this week volunteers are organising events all…
Sub-Saharan Africa discovers Repair Café
Repair Café has made its way to Sub-Saharan Africa! On September 24 seventeen volunteers came together in the town of Mankoadze in Ghana. The repair…
Already 29 Repair Café countries
Would you like to repair your broken items together with the Repair Café? By the end of September this will be possible for the first…
International Repair Café week
The International Repair Café week will be held from 17 to 23 October. In this week, volunteers all over the world will hold meetings about…
Repairing with the Repair Café Wiki
Everywhere in the world are people who are good at repairing. Some easily fix the damaged cable of a vacuum cleaner or a faltering Hi-Fi…
“We want better repairable items”
Items should be more durable and repairable, says a growing number of Repair Café volunteers. This according to research by the Centre for Sustainable Design,…
200,000kg of CO2 emissions saved
In 2015, Repair Cafés repaired about 200,000 items worldwide. Thus preventing an estimated 200,000 kilograms of CO2 emissions. This is stated in the annual report…