Repair Café Tuesdays
📍 Berlin, Germany · 👤 Story by Sabine
We are not saving the planet on Tuesday evenings. But forty people who used to throw things away no longer do. This gallery is a year of toasters, lamps and bicycles that got a second life.
- Education
- Community
- Waste
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