Repair Kopitiam

30 June is the last day of the first half of the year and also the 6th Repair Kopitiam’s National Repair Day 2024! Today we had Go Green participants and URA folks join us at our event to experience what a visitor learning to fix his/her items will feel when they get them working again.

After a short walk around the mall to see sustainability activities of this wonderful “green” mall and its push for how good ideas can contribute to better sustainable practices. We have to thank Ed Ng from Our Tampines Hub for yet another fantastic tour.

Also in our spotlight this month is Pek Kio located at Dorset Road.

Thanks to the team at Coral Ris for hosting Veera and the interview team.

Cheers, Everyone

🔨REPAIR IS FOR EVERYONE⚙️.

Our Score Card for 30 June National Repair Day 2024!!! 🎉
159 Registered Participants
221 Items Registered
17 Returning Items
145 items Repaired (65.6% 🔻0.9%)

Year to date
735 Registered Participants
1013 Items Registered
94 Returning Items
*641* items Repaired (63.3% ▲0.7%)

Recently I got wind of a comment that our FAQ does not cover our booking information. I will have to thank all (Ava P Burgh, Na Abs) who have tried to reply to Robin Rheaume with regard to how our process works. However, I checked our Facebook website to find that Robin was very right about her comments. There was really an issue.

Apparently, when you login as a member of our website, you will only see a small list of the FAQs even if you have selected any other FA questions. i.e. if you can even see the other FAQs. BUT! If you have tried to login as an unregistered public, then the FAQ works normally. LOL.

We have since fixed the FAQ issue. Now all members and the public can read all of our FAQs. Thanks everyone for pitching in and making us realise the issue. Cheers and have a great weekend.

Enjoy Reading Our FAQs
tiny.cc/RKSFAQ (Facebook)
repairkopitiam.sg/faq

Additionally:
With regard to rejecting items, we do that when the following occurs:

1. Item is not what we will repair due to reasons that you can read in our FAQ
2. We do not have the expertise to coach you to fix that item. We are a DIY repair community so our equipment and volunteer capabilities determine what we are able to look at.
3. The item is by nature not possible to repair due to proprietary parts that we know via the description of the issue.

We do not reject any items that we can try to repair.

Thanks a lot to our volunteers who have helped us at Repair Kampung for the 1st and 2nd June! Because of their efforts we were able to identify RCCB failures at the Bishan senior flats. This was something significant because if RCCB is not working, it will put the seniors in serious danger.

Also special thanks to Peter who has helped us do the replacement of RCCB even during late hours. 🙏

Been hanging around the west side today and seeing our UWC students joining RKS@Jurong Lake Gardens and meeting up with RKS@CCKCC, seeing everyone so engrossed in repairs makes you feel that we have come a long way since 2014 when we were still figuring out what to share with the public.

Landing back to Our Tampines Hub, repairs were still ongoing. It makes me happy to say, we are proud of our plan to spread repairs. It doesn't matter if you are good at it or just learning, it truly starts when you brave that first step to dive into exploring this very useful skill.

🔨REPAIR IS FOR EVERYONE⚙️.

Our Score Card for 26 May National Repair Day 2024!!! 🎉
130 Registered Participants
164 Items Registered
15 Returning Items
109 items Repaired (66.5% ▲4.4%)

Year to date
576 Registered Participants
792 Items Registered
77 Returning Items
*496* items Repaired (62.6% ▲1.0%)

Thanks to everyone for yet another nice repair day.

Our Score Card for 28 April National Repair Day 2024!!!🎉🥳
138 Registered Participants
190 Items Registered
20 Returning Items
118 items Repaired (62.1% 🔻5.9%)

Year to date
446 Registered Participants
628 Items Registered
62 Returning Items
387 items Repaired (61.6% ▲0.2%)

At our booth in Pasir Ris Central Hawker Center, RKS has set up a booth to meet the public and show them how they can learn repair and join our ranks of coaches.

Thanks to Desmond Tan 陈国明 for stopping by. Your support for RKS at Coral Ris has been a big part of our motivation to keep helping residents in Pasir Ris.

Thanks to all Coral Ris coaches for coming to meet and help out. Cheers!!!

REPAIR KAMPUNG ⚒💚: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We are looking for volunteers to join us in the sustainability journey to reuse & reduce by guiding fellow residents learn to repair their appliances and ensure electrical safety.

No prior knowledge is required and training will be provided.

To sign up, scan the QR code or use this link: https://go.gov.sg/rkgs-volunteer

🛠Volunteer Brief & Q&A Session
Date: 11 May 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 10am to 11am
Venue: Bishan CC Conference Room at Level 2

🛠Survey/Ground Sensing Training
Date: 19 May 2024 (Sunday)
Time: 10am to 12pm
Venue: Bishan CC conference room at Level 2

We look forward to partnering you “Towards A Caring & Greener BESM Community”! 💚🌍💖

Tune in again!!! Today!!! Thank you Kiss92

Congratulations to ZWB Revamp Champs for completing their project with Repair Kopitiam and creating a lot of buzz in social media. Cheers

For the rest of you all, you can enjoy their journey and those of other initiatives Secondsguru at Jurong Regional Library.

Hip Hip Hooray!!!

Happening Now - 9am to 12nn Coaches’ Master Class: Servicing and Repairs: Bike & Fabric

This class is for DIY repairs and it’s self directed for coaches own consumption as well as to update their skills for service and repairs of bikes and fabric fixes.

Volunteer with us and be a committed coach to our movement and you can join these classes to learn and share more DIY skills.

Many thanks for Teck Ghee Vista RN and their members for hosting and helping with the practical today.

To volunteer with Repair Kopitiam, please use this link
tiny.cc/joinrk

Due to Technical Issues that we've just fixed, Booking is now open at all locations.

Our Score Card for 24 Mar National Repair Day 2024!!!🎉🥳
94 Registered Participants
125 Items Registered
12 Returning Items
85 items Repaired (68% ▲7.1%)

Year to date
308 Registered Participants
438 Items Registered
42 Returning Items
269 items Repaired (61.4% ▲2.6%)

Many thanks to all coaches and participants for coming and making another super national repair day at our 9 locations. See you all at our next on 24 Mar 2024.

Please note that the Repair Event at *Our Tampines Hub* will take a break for the month of March and *will return on 28 April*

Our Score Card for 25 Feb National Repair Day 2024!!!
112 Registered Participants
161 Items Registered
11 Returning Items
98 items Repaired (60.9% ▲4.3%)

Year to date
215 Registered Participants
313 Items Registered
30 Returning Items
184 items Repaired (58.8% ▲2.2%)

Note: Repair Kopitiam @ Our Tampines Hub will be taking a short break next month and we will continue our efforts from 28 April 2024.

Join us at Repair Koptiam in Our Tampines Hub this Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm !! 🙌🏻🔥

What a great start to 2024!

103 Registered Participants
152 Items Registered
19 Returning Items
86 items Repaired (56.6%)

We would like to thank PAssion Wave @ Jurong Lake Gardens for hosting our DIY service event.

Thank you all participants and coaches. Wishing everyone a soooooooper Year of the Dragon! Cheers!

Repair Kopitiam will like to thank the team Revamp Champs from Zero Waste Bootcamp for they brilliant effort to outreach to so many people and bringing more understanding to the work we do.

We wish you all the best in your future endeavours and do remember to pop in for a couple of repairs and laughs!

The 9th round of our flagship - focused on youth and powered by National Youth Council Subgapore - wrapped up after 16 weeks on Saturday, 27 Jan, at Singapore Sustainability Academy. The youth teams shared their journey, impact and learnings with their peers and our of esteemed panel of experts. Congratulations to all 4 teams for successfully planning, executing and presenting your eco+social projects. 🥳 💪🏽

Big thank you to our expert panel for their time and insights - Joanne Ng (Temesek Foundation), Michelle Huang (National Youth Council), Jing Ting (National Environment Agency) and Ivy Lim (Standard Chartered Bank) 🌟

The bootcamp would not have been possible without the support of our amazing project partners Food Fro the Heart, Yong En Care Centre, Repair Kopitiam and New Hope Community Services.

Last but not least, kudos to Team Revamp Champs who were commended for best executed project by the panel - you worked hard to learn and spread word on the need to embrace the "repair culture". The team of 5 walked away with sustainable goodies from our award sponsors Indosole, Greenhood, Cocoveda Global, Thryft Asia and Treatsure! All participants planted a tree each, courtesy Susgain for their commitment to sustainability.

Here's our overall statistics of 2023! 🔥Thanks so much for all of your effort and hope to see y'all again🥰!

We are happy to mention who have a Repair Tips 🛠️booth on 2 December at library@harbourfront. Visit them to learn more about reducing electronic e-waste and repair tips!
Link: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/say-yes-to-waste-less-tickets-759543002567?aff=oddtdtcreator

Discover the DIY magic of fixing your own shoes – because real winners know the joy of well-repaired shoes! 👞✨ Join us at our event and let's learn how to do it ourselves for free! This will not only help us save money💵 but also contribute to sustainability🌎.

Link: https://forms.gle/tx15aVYt9Y448FWh9

Come join our first learn to DIY servicing your fans and laptops, and also fix your “talking” shoes.

26 Oct Sunday at 9 locations round the island. As we are coming to the end of the year 2023,

Thanks to all coaches and supporters.

Oct 2023
Total Visitors: 141
Total Items Looked At: 184
Total Items Fixed: 107 (58.2%)

Year to Date
Total Visitors Registered: 1054
Total Items Looked At: 1436
Total Items Fixed: 791 (62.5% 🔼0.7%)

To find out more about our movement, please visit tiny.cc/RKSFAQ

We are all set to recruit more volunteers @ Ready For Life CPFB MBS.

24 Sep Sunday at 9 locations round the island.

It’s a late post as we have been a little busy recently getting ready for some interesting new initiative that’ll be announced soon. Can’t wait to share with all of you!!! Anyway here are the results of last RK event.

A very special shout out to Coral Ris RK for achieving the highest success rate ever in the history of Repair Kopitiam!!!! 16 items successfully repaired by participants out of 18 items brought down. (88.9% success)

Sep 2023
Total Visitors: 135
Total Items Looked At: 189
Total Items Fixed: 120 (63.5%)

Year to Date
Total Visitors Registered: 913
Total Items Looked At: 1252
Total Items Fixed: 791 (63.2% 🔼0.1%)

To find out more about our movement, please visit tiny.cc/RKSFAQ

When attending Repair Kopitiam Events, coaches will try their best to guide you. If you’re angry when things don’t get fixed,
you should remind yourself that you are the one who is supposed to be fixing your own barang.

For those who have been with Repair Kopitiam, you may have from time to time have met with Veera. He will drop by and be one of the coaches guiding the public in repair.

Veera's passion and commitment to making things right for sustainability and starting Repair Kopitiam was one of his favourite achievements since embarking on his career in sustainability.

Congratulations to Veera on being selected as one of the UN Global Connect SDG pioneers 2023. In celebrating this recognition of his years of hard work and dedication, let's help to spread this good news by reposting to shout out to everyone.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sustainablelivinglab_sdgpioneers-globalgoals-tenprinciples-activity-7110061379792883713-1Eu0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Edmund Ho
Location: Tampines
5 years with Repair Kopitiam

1. What you think about your journey with RK?

My journey with RK is a fruitful and fun one. I've learnt a lot from repairing and sharing my knowledge and repair experiences with others.

2. What is your vision for the future of RK?

I hope RK can spread the DIY repair culture by encourage individuals to learn to fix their own appliances.

I envision the future of RK to be able to assist in building a more sustainable and responsible approach to circular environment.

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Joined Repair Kopitiam tiny.cc/joinrk
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Book Time Slot to meet our coaches Monthly repairkopitiam.sg/event

16 Sep @ Lor Lew Lian Repair Kampung Singapore. Kudos to ReJu for their fantastic effort getting residents to start their journey in repairing their fabric belongings. JIA YOU!!! 加油!!!

Youth Corps Singapore

Samantha Lai
Location: Pek Kio
1 year with Repair Kopitiam

1. What do you think about your journey with RK?

Without going through formal learning in school, Repair Kopitiam has been a good informal way for me to learn technical skills to fix broken appliances. It's always better to understand the workings of the mechanisms behind things even when engaging professionals, so you are always in the know.

2. What is your vision for the future of RK?

I hope that Repair Kopitiam will remain accessible to the masses who are starting out their DIY repair journeys.

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Joined Repair Kopitiam tiny.cc/joinrk
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