Connecting skills with needs, building friendships and maintaining vibrant villages.
Challenged with retirement and perhaps unused skills, the "Men's Sheds" around Australia are fostering sharing old skills, learning new skills and developing new friendships in a way more palatable to aging males.Port Phillip Men's Shed, for example, has an ongoing initiative and regular opportunity for public to bring broken household items in for fixing, using skills difficult to find in a "single-use, throw-away society".
Another initiative sees little free libraries popping up around the neighborhoods.
Think waterproof decorative boxes, size and shaped about 2-3 times bigger than a letter box. Positioned within arms' reach from the street. Locals leave, pickup books as they pass by in their usual busyness. See image for example.
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Port Phillip Men's Shed
Website: http://www.ppmensshed.org
Supported by City of Port Phillip through Vibrant Villages Program
