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 second Repair Café at the Davis Campus! 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!
What is a Fixer?
A Fixer is a volunteer who is skilled at repairing household items, everything from appliances to electronics to clothing, you name it. Students, faculty and staff are all needed and welcome.
Photo caption: Herb Sinnock, Manager, Office for Sustainability, fixing a waffle griller in April’s Repair Café.
Sheridan’s Repair Café
Sheridan was the first college in Canada to join this global movement. Sheridan’s first Repair Café was launched at the Trafalgar Campus in April with great success. 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 90 second You Tube video on Toronto’s Repair Café that our sustainability coordinator launched as a volunteer initiative in 2013.
On Thursday, November 13, as part of its Mission Zero sustainability campaign, Sheridan is hosting its second Repair Café at the Student Centre at the Davis Campus. It will take place in the atrium, from 11:30 am to 2 pm.
To join our team of fixers, please contact Wai Chu Cheng, Sustainability Coordinator, Office for Sustainability, at waichu.cheng@sheridancollege.ca
For more info on the Repair Café movement, please visit www.repaircafetoronto.ca.