{"id":5089,"date":"2021-05-31T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/en\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:45:31","slug":"repairing-in-the-covid-year-2020-read-our-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repaircafe.org\/en\/repairing-in-the-covid-year-2020-read-our-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing in the COVID year 2020: read our annual report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repair Caf\u00e9 International has made every effort in the COVID year 2020 to continue to stimulate enthusiasm for repairing and to emphasize its importance. So writes the foundation in its annual report 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Repair Caf\u00e9 International encouraged its international network to adapt services during the pandemic, for example by offering online repair help or organizing pick-up and drop-off services. The foundation also actively promoted the Repair Caf\u00e9 concept and repair in a broad sense to the world in 2020, through online marketing, interviews, lectures, presentations, presence on panels, discussion groups and other sessions.<\/p>\n<h4>Preventing volunteers from dropping out<\/h4>\n<p>In all these ways, the foundation wanted to prevent broken items from being unjustly thrown away during the pandemic. It also wanted to prevent volunteers from dropping out and not returning to their Repair Caf\u00e9 after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the repair of many products, you can currently only go to a Repair Caf\u00e9&#8221;, says director Martine Postma. &#8220;This vulnerable infrastructure must be protected. It would be a great shame if the pandemic were to wipe out Repair Caf\u00e9s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>Resilience of the Repair Caf\u00e9 network<\/h4>\n<p>The scope for community repair was very limited in 2020. But the drive and resilience of the Repair Caf\u00e9 network was heart-warming, writes chairman Joanna van der Zanden in the foreword to the annual report. &#8220;Repair Caf\u00e9 volunteers are doers, problem solvers who don&#8217;t throw in the towel, but in the face of adversity put their shoulders to the wheel together. That quality is what makes the Repair Caf\u00e9 network so strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>Download the annual report 2020<\/h4>\n<p>Want to know what else Repair Caf\u00e9 International has accomplished in 2020? Download the annual report (in Dutch), or read the English summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jaarverslag_2020_web-3.pdf\">Annual report 2020 &#8211; web version (1MB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jaarverslag_2020_print-1.pdf\">Annual report 2020 &#8211; print version (3,4 MB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/repaircafe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Annual_report_2020_summary_06_2021.pdf\">Annual report 2020 &#8211; English summary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repair Caf\u00e9 International has made every effort in the COVID year 2020 to continue to stimulate enthusiasm for repairing and to emphasize its importance. So writes the foundation in its annual report 2020. 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