Do you like fixing things and helping others? When friends describe you, does the word “handy” come to mind?
If you’re the kind of person who loves to fix things – rather than see them tossed in the trash – we need your help.
Sheridan is hosting its third Repair Café in early March! This time, it will be held at the MakerSpace Creative Hub at Brampton Library – Four Corners Branch. The Repair Café aims to reduce the waste that is sent to landfill and change society’s throw-away mindset. Come join our team of fixers for this global movement!
Repair Café Fixer Georg (right) is helping Visitor Harsh to look at his BlackBerry Playbook in last November’s Repair Café at the Davis campus.
What is a Fixer?
A Fixer is a volunteer who is skilled at repairing household items, everything from small appliances to electronics to clothing, you name it. Students, faculty and staff are all needed and welcome.
Sheridan’s Repair Café
Sheridan was the first postsecondary education institution in Canada joining this global movement. Sheridan has held two Repair Cafés at different campuses last year with great successes. The Repair Café initiative started in Amsterdam in 2009. Within five years, more than 400 repair cafés have become part of the worldwide network of Repair Cafe Foundation. Please click on the following link for a new 90 second video on how a Repair Café visitor described her experience at Toronto’s Repair Café that our sustainability coordinator launched as a volunteer initiative in 2013.
On Sunday, March 8, as part of its Mission Zero sustainability campaign, Sheridan is hosting its third Repair Café at the MakerSpace Creative Hub at Brampton Library, Four Corners Branch. It will be held, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
To join our team of fixers for the March 8 café, please register on this Eventbrite site:
repaircafesheridanmarch8.eventbrite.com
Any questions, please contact:
Wai Chu Cheng, Sustainability Coordinator, at waichu.cheng@sheridancollege.ca.
For more info on the Repair Café movement, please visit www.repaircafetoronto.ca and www.repaircafetoronto.org.
