{"id":48066,"date":"2023-09-20T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/?p=48066"},"modified":"2023-09-22T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T08:15:19","slug":"volunteers-in-india-modify-repair-cafe-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/en\/volunteers-in-india-modify-repair-cafe-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers in India modify Repair Cafe model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repair Cafes also exist in India. But in this huge Asian country they take a different form than in, for example, Western Europe or North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have modified the Repair Cafe model for use in India\u201d, says Purna Sarkar, who started Repair Cafe Bengaluru in 2015. This initiative has evolved into an NGO since and is now known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/en\/cafe\/repair-cafe-collective-india-bengaluru\/\">Repair Cafe Collective India<\/a>. This collective organizes pop-up repair workshops across Bangalore City.<\/p>\n<h2>Proper lighting, clean toilets and electricity<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any paid staff; we are a group of fifteen volunteers\u201d, Purna says. \u201cWith this group we have meanwhile run more than 50 repair workshops. We have very low resources and try out various places where people can offer us minimal facilities, like proper lighting, clean toilets, electricity and, if possible, a covered space. As a result, we held workshops in garages, school auditoriums and caf\u00e9s, but also on the sides of roads, in parks, driveways, play areas etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All workshops happen on Sundays, since most volunteers are only available for weekends. \u201cThe volunteers organise everything, and we invite professional repairers to join. We pay them on a per workshop basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Online programme for children<\/h2>\n<p>Apart from the pop-up workshops, the volunteers run an online programme on home maintenance and upkeep for children, called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hi64bI49IsI\">Tinker Kinder<\/a>\u2019. \u201cChildren are enrolled in this program by their parents. We get a lot of messages from parents who let us know that they would have liked to participate in the workshops too, but were unable to bring themselves to cross distances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, the Repair Cafe Collective India manages a number of consultative Whatsapp groups. In these groups, people can ask each other for guidance on how to repair various broken objects. \u201cThe people in these groups are mainly DIY&#8217;ers or home repair enthusiasts&#8221;, Purna says. &#8220;The repair problems raised in these groups are very diverse. Though not always, the answers or suggestions are beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Expansion to other cities<\/h2>\n<p>Through this Whatsapp service, the repair activities are now spreading to other cities in India, like Hyderabad and Mumbai. \u201cThese are very recent endeavours\u201d, Purna says. \u201cSome of the people who are aware of the workshops done in Bangalore are now getting together in Hyderabad and Mumbai.\u201d Purna hopes this will lead to structural repair meetings across India. \u201cHowever, a barrier remains in keeping workshops going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48077 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Poster_workshop_India-1024x1013.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"891\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48077 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Poster_workshop_India-1024x1013.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Poster_workshop_India-1024x1013.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Poster_workshop_India-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Poster_workshop_India-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Poster_workshop_India-768x760.png 768w, https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Poster_workshop_India.png 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/noscript><em>The Repair Cafe Collective India hopes that their workshops will become a structural programme in Mumbai City too.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>More information<\/h2>\n<p>More information about the activities of the Repair Cafe Collective India is <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/repaircafebengaluru\">on their website<\/a>. Here, you can also register for their workshops and sign up for their Whatsapp groups.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repair Cafes also exist in India. But in this huge Asian country they take a different form than in, for example, Western Europe or North America. \u201cWe have modified the Repair Cafe model for use in India\u201d, says Purna Sarkar,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-news-from-our-network","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Volunteers in India modify Repair Cafe model - Repaircafe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Repair Cafes also exist in India. 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