{"id":37175,"date":"2016-10-04T09:47:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T07:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/repaircafe.meodemo.nl\/en\/sub-saharan-africa-discovers-repair-cafe\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:48:05","slug":"sub-saharan-africa-discovers-repair-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/en\/sub-saharan-africa-discovers-repair-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Saharan Africa discovers Repair Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repair Caf\u00e9 has made its way to Sub-Saharan Africa! On September 24 seventeen volunteers came together in the town of Mankoadze in Ghana. The repair event was held in the open-air under canopies.<\/p>\n<p>Between 8am and 4:30pm, over a hundred people visited the event. They brought broken food blenders with them, irons, mobile phones, dresses, bulky televisions. Damage from lightning and overvoltage was common and several items already showed evidence of very resourceful repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The repairs were free. There were caterers who made rice, tomato stew and pastries for sale. And there was loud music.<\/p>\n<p>Initiator Chris Moller says: \u201cLoud music really helps to make it an occasion in this environment \u2013 even if it does make it difficult to think and converse.\u201d Chris also organizes the Repair Caf\u00e9 in Cottenham, United Kingdom. Since he is in Ghana to support the Mankoadze Vocational College, he thought: why not try a Repair Caf\u00e9 over here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Repairing in the bright sunlight<\/strong><br \/>\nAs a Repair Caf\u00e9 expert, Chris noted all the successes and areas for improvement. He noticed that outside, in the bright sunlight, it was hard to read the LED displays. And screws are impossible to find in the grass. \u201cSo we provided every repairer with a bowl to keep screws in\u201d, he wrote, \u201cbut in their excitement, they weren\u2019t always used until it was too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris and the other volunteers are ready for a second Sub-Saharan African Repair Caf\u00e9. \u201cThere is certainly no shortage of things to repair\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25055 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Repair-Caf\u00e9-Ghana-naaimachines.jpg\" alt=\"repair-cafe-ghana-naaimachines\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25055 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Repair-Caf\u00e9-Ghana-naaimachines.jpg\" alt=\"repair-cafe-ghana-naaimachines\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repair Caf\u00e9 has made its way to Sub-Saharan Africa! 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