Karori Repair Café starting

By Frank Neill

Karori’s first repair café will take place in just over a week. The repair café, where people can take items they would like to see fixed, will be held at the Karori Community Centre from 11am to 2pm on Sunday 21 May.

Karori resident Julia Rowling initiated the project to set up a repair café in the suburb.

Throwing away things that could be repaired is a “crazy way of doing things,” Julia says.

“We throw things away when there is so much life left in them.

“Waste is just a paradigm. If we looked at things as resourc-