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How the Repair Café fixes more than broken things

In 2013, Peter Skinner found the Repair Café in Palo Alto (USA) which adopts the idea of a grassroot movement from the Netherlands: bringing people together who need something to be repaired with people who can fix it. Thereby the cafe provides a platform for people who might not have met otherwise and it saves items from being thrown away, good for your wallet and the environment.

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