On February 23, Repair Café returned to one of our favourite community locations at Central Neighbourhood House (CNH) on Ontario Street in the east side of Toronto. The photo above was taken with the CNH Community Development Coordinator, Touhida Choudhury (second from right), and her volunteers and students (from left […]

A Mother, A Son, & A Great Community

Repair Café had a great start in the new year! On Saturday January 19, we returned to Toronto Reference Library and offered our first full café in 2019. In spite of the cold and snowy weather, we had the highest turnout of volunteers and received the most broken household items […]

A New Record at Toronto Reference Library!

81 events across the city… Expanded initiatives such as children’s events, farmer’s markets, mini cafes, Sunday workshops… 100 + volunteers, with more young people joining as apprentice fixers… Record high numbers of collaborative ventures with partners from diverse institutions… 1,978 items fixed and diverted from landfill, bringing it to 6,050 […]

The World We Are Building