 So let me introduce, then, our first speaker. Our first speaker is Brigitte from Rapecafe, Aira Teora, New Zealand. Brigitte is the co-founder of Rapecafe, Aira Teora, New Zealand. I got the pronunciation a little long there, Brigitte. The network started a couple of years ago and has quickly spread throughout New Zealand. And they now have a lot of Rapecafes on both islands. And they do a lot of work to include as many different communities as possible. And it is this inclusive approach to building a network of repair that Brigitte will touch on today. The network is also actively involved in campaigning for the right to repair within Aira Teora, New Zealand. And they've had some recent success, actually, on this front. So Brigitte will also cover some of that. Without further ado, let me hand over to Brigitte and enjoy Fix Fest. Hello, everyone. Thank you for the lovely introduction, James. I really appreciate that. And lovely to meet you all. I can't see your faces, but I'm sure you will connect in some way today. So yes, I live in Aira Teora, New Zealand, which is way down in the Pacific. I'm originally from Germany and I've lived here for many, many years. And I was very fortunate enough to join the repair movement. So today I'll be sharing with you some of what we've been developing. And I have a power presentation, which I start off with. And so I'll bring this up now. Here you can see the beautiful islands. And this is a map that was actually created by one of our collaborators. And they allowed us to have a sub function there with repair cafes. And you can see that repair cafes are growing all across those islands. And if I can, then I will also maybe share a journey with you through this map. So can you see, can somebody tell me if you can see? Looks good to me, Brigitte. Oh, fantastic. Thank you so much. So where I am here is the Auckland Tamaki Makaurau. And you can see there's a lot of little repair cafes. And then right up north as well. Oops, I should be coming up. And then we'll go through the town. And then there is Wellington. This is our capital. They've got a lot of repair cafes as well. And I'm always popping up because I think my zoom is a little slow. And then we have some in the South Island as well, as you saw in the lovely imagery we had before. So I'm going back to my PowerPoint, which is a better associate image, a little bit better. Now, what James mentioned, that when we started, and this was actually just shortly before the pandemic. So which leads us to that we basically focused on networking and exploring in our place, you know, within the zero waste and education sector. Yeah, and business sector as well. So we are still not very well funded. And we also have no legal status at this point. So therefore we are umbrellaed by the zero waste network. And so this is the national organization and these are all the repair cafes that we support and being established and running. And one of the important things that is here in our terrible is that we are indigenous people Maori are very important, you know, in our country, and we do have a treaty that encourages partnership. And so in our organization, we developed a partnership agreement between the zero waste Maori organization para kore and Rebecca felt our own Zealand. And I like to go to the next slide. That's right. So, this is the treaty. There's actually an English and a Maori version, and they differ. So, in our country, and our country does have a colonial history. And so where we are within the zero waste network and culture, we are actually intending and attempting to develop true partnerships, which means that we need to learn a lot. We learn a lot about the treaty and the history, and, and make amendments and put history right. So how Rebecca for our chair works with us is that we actually applied for some funding through Auckland Council to run workshops for free for our Rebecca for organizers and volunteers. And, but basically offer education about the security or what I mean, and the history of out there or New Zealand. And another way of bringing Maori knowledge and history into Rebecca face is by introducing period, this is the language. So we developed some resources where we are actually identifying the Maori root, not to do Maori for an English work of the repair. So, fuck a pie. So bicycle repair. So, and this is a very gentle and interesting way of introducing to Leo Maori and Maori culture into our repair cafe culture. Coming back to this network. Yes, we have the little repair cafes, and we are often that often taking place like all over the world, I guess you know in council buildings or in public libraries. There are little community places and so forth, and also an educational centers as well as in community recycling centers. This is something that we are developing here, particularly in Tamaki Makauha Auckland, where we are introducing repair cafes into a recycling center, which is a perfect opportunity, you know to have the goods that have been donated, be repaired, and then be distributed among lower socio economic groups, or be to be able to be churches for purchase for our price but in very good condition. Here you see like some fun like you see all around the world you know about repair cafes, and we have different communities we also have a strong Chinese community community and young people. Yeah, so from all walks of life. This is something that we did as a group of repair cafe organizers from different repair cafes in the Wellington region. We all came together and we attended a festival for the future, which is a festival that is held here in New Zealand, and for young people. We look at what is the vision, what are the options, what are the possibilities, and we had a store there was people visiting us and some fixing was going on repairing and mending and young people getting young people excited about repair, and it was really, fun and interesting and we have a lot of young people signed up for our newsletter and also interested in starting up a repair cafe in their own country or local local community. It's something that we'd like to encourage that the regional repair cafes come together and enjoy it as company get to learn from each other, and also share resources and so forth. It was very successful. Now here I would like to show you like how we are embedded in a wider zero wise network. There are some statistics statistics from early this year. And you can see that we are here as well. At this point it's 32 repair cafes which has grown beyond 40 by now. And so we are measuring lucky or most of you are looking at data and which contributes to the amount of wasted that can be avoided. And also, and looking at workshops and education that they can offer in regards to repair and zero waste and environmental care. So it's we are very fortunate to be able to embedded in such wide support of networks. So now I'm talking about a little exercise that we did for the past two weeks. In fact, due to lack of funding, we decided to do some crowdfunding just for two weeks. We participated in some training and renders on a little on a little website. And we actually raised within two weeks 10,000 or 11,000 New Zealand dollars, which is quite a lot for us. So, and the intention is to get special tools, you know, storage spaces and special education and training for repairers and volunteers, and also some more resources and promotional resources as well. So that would be very interesting for us to do as a community to share these donations. And I must say that these repair cafe organisers they get they know each other very well because we also run zoom meetings. We are we meet and chat and we exchange ideas and experiences and so forth. And we are intending to write our own manual together sometime next year as well. Coming back to this. I just like to mention that we are also have a strong relationship with repair businesses and consumer New Zealand, which is an organization that is involved after consumers, you know, we're offering a lot of information about products. And there are also together involved with us in the vital peer movement, which I am going to be talking about next. So here we are we put together a petition so need to need to tell you that we do not have a right to appear legislation currently in our New Zealand so it is one of the first times will be introduced, and we had a petition. And that ran over a few months, not too long and reached 13 and a half thousand signatures, which we're very pleased with. And here are some action in two cities, Wellington and Christchurch or to Tahi, and where we are drawing attention to the need for repair. We're also fortunate to be able to deliver our petition to the Minister for the environment, David Parker, and this is the previous Minister for the environment Eugene sage and some other politicians on this photo, as well as Paul from consumer New Zealand. Yes, so this was a proud moment of ours to be able to deliver the petition, and we now have been invited to write a submission and will be speaking to it to a select committee sometime soon. I'm going to share something else with you now and we are. We actually have currently some limitations for other laws and this needs to be addressed and this is some one of the appendices that we are adding to the submission. Trade marks act consumer guarantees act was organization act disputes tribunal patents act designs act. And also for a trading act so there are a few acts that we are requesting the government to review. And so this will be very interesting conversations to have. And we'll be sharing them with you. I'm sure I no doubt. And so now the next opportunity to meet up with us is at International Repair Day. Last year we actually launched and Rebecca found out on International Repair Day, as well as our petition. Officially, and this year we have what we call the repair show where we have a lot of case studies, and also a little bit of research into the experience of repair volunteers. And yes, and some live streaming of I think we've got about seven events maybe happening throughout the country on that day. Yeah, and yeah, we'll be just so much fun. So if you're around and if you're not doing your own thing. So please join us and we fantastic to have you there. And lastly, I would like to thank you for your attention. And I'm very happy to have conversations with you. Thank you so much. Thank you for that presentation, Brigitte. Really interesting and really inspiring to kind of hear about all the work that you're doing, particularly presenting the petition to the Environment Minister. What an amazing moment actually. Yeah. Does anyone have any questions for Brigitte about the work that they do in New Zealand comments will be fine as well. We have a question from Mike. We have. Yeah. Shall we enable video and audio for this I think we're a small group, I think it's probably. That's great. One second Mike, I will give you permission. Okay, Mike. Yeah, you should have permission to share your video and audio now. Good. Well, is it evening or for you? Probably very late. No, that was great. That was really great to see and it sounds like you've got a kind of, you know, real kind of head of steam to what you're kind of doing. I just wondered very practically jumping in if that's all right. So I'm just wondering what you have around the kind of messaging you used and kind of what worked well and you know any discussions you had before about how to present the the ask and why it went so well apparently against your expectation so just anything that would be helpful for us. I'm very happy with to share this with you, Mike, and we're actually going to write a report about this. It just finished yesterday so. But I guess you know we underwent some training on crowdfunding. So and we got together a group of several repair cafe organizers. Which we haven't worked together with but this was something quite exciting with different skills. So I basically put out a Google form was the skills that I was expecting from such working group. And so people put this together so that gave us a good start. We all attended the training and then we developed resources and I have one young woman who's supporting me. Part time and we developed the social media aspect of it. I guess we also had our already make it our right to appear petition supporters, which we could access. We are small country so we are quite well known and what we're doing and we developed quite quickly. So, and that has been noticed so I think everyone was quite curious to see what we're doing. Yeah, and this is the real momentum now going towards community repair and can yeah repair communities, I think. I don't want to crowd out other people with patients but I just wonder what the ask was was it kind of. We're a good thing. Give us some money, or did you have a kind of specific. If we get to seven and a half thousand dollars and then we can achieve. I just wondered how the dynamic of the ask is it worth. Yeah, the specifics were, you know, like special tools. Commercial material. And storage space. Okay, and just really practical things. Yes, yes. Thank you. I like to. Yeah. Pleasure. Thank you make happy to talk more and share the report with you to. As to Māori. Yes, we have been invited to bring repair cafe to Māori Marae, and organizations as well. So this is something we'll be doing next year and there will be some research around this as well to look rather to kind of call papa principles and ways of doing things meet. So, yeah, so this is the idea. We've been invited, you know, and we will explore, you know, but it's suitable and appropriate. If that answers your question. Thank you. I believe we now have a question from alias alias do you want to use your camera and microphone or would you prefer to use the chat. Thank you Brigitte for your presentation. I greet everybody here. I hear you. And I want to ask two questions. The first is how do you make to make to make your repair cafe safety. Do you use accidents. Sorry. How did you did you make your repair cafe. I think that's safe for security in the area. I think about health and safety. So how do you make sure repair cafes are safe and repairing electrical appliances. Is that right? Yes. And do you use insurance at your events. This is the same like with the international repair cafe manual. Follow those principles and ethics. And we have registered electricians with us as well. Okay, because in, in being in some time authority come in our organization to to stop our activity because we we don't have a insurance service. So I want to know if it is a symptom in New Zealand. Yeah, and yes, I totally understand the situation and what I'm actually doing I have contacted the New Zealand electrical workers board. And I am requesting, you know, some information in writing about, you know, how they view, you know, the operation of repair cafes in regards to like to work here. I think that's probably the best way to go about it. You know, so you have this official. Yeah, you know, I mean, yeah. The second question is, you say that you do fundraising. Because you want to make a several action of because you want to, you, because of you, you need money for your activities. In Africa, particularly in being people who make reparation, made people pay it is not free. So is it because that's all you want you do fundraising. We fundraise for specific tools, you know, or special tools, you know, so special school drivers, for example, you know, to open a device for example, yes, or, you know, special machinery storage space, because they're pop up repair cafes, so storage is sometimes, you know, the difficulty. And, yeah, and also promotional material, or maybe a flag, you know, things like that, and also setting up more repair cafes as well. So that's practical practical things that we are. I understand now, but I want to ask the last question. Will it be possible to do fundraising for another group for for repair. A cross. Maybe we can, we can exchange emails and we can talk about this another time. Yes, would that be all right. Okay, okay. We have to look into this for you. Well, so as to my English, it is bad, but I want to express what I'm thinking. No, no, it's great. I'm just aware that my time is up with the 930 so yeah, and to the next presenter will be ready. So I'll be very happy to email with you and have a conversation this way about fundraising. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for your questions. Okay, perfect. Okay, thank you everybody for your questions and thank you so much for talking us through the work that you do. It's really, really interesting and really valuable to have an insight into how community repair and your campaigning work in New Zealand. Brigitte, thank you.