Community Creativity For Development - CC4D

🚨 New Partnership Alert! 🤝🌍

What if I told you that we are about to begin something new and transformative in Yei?

Last Month February, we officially signed a partnership with the Urban Movement Innovation Fund to implement a three-month project in Yei, South Sudan.

Through this collaboration, we will host a series of community Repair Café workshops that use repair as a platform for centering joy, strengthening community connections, promoting healing, and supporting emotional wellbeing — all at the heart of climate action.

This initiative goes beyond fixing broken items. It is about restoring hope, building resilience, and creating safe community spaces where people come together to care for their Tech devices, their environment, and each other.

We are excited about this new journey and the impact it will bring to our community. Stay tuned for updates as we begin this meaningful work! 🌱✨

🌍🔧 Repair Café in Eden Marks International Women’s Day 2026

On March 8, as we commemorated International Women's Day, we hosted an 8-hour Repair Café in Eden, bringing together community members to promote repair, sustainability, and shared learning.

The event welcomed 150 participants who brought 170 electronic devices in need of repair. With the dedication of our volunteer repairers and community members, we successfully repaired 56 devices, including:
🔋 Power banks
📻 Radios
💡 Lights and solar lamps
📱 Mobile phones
🔆 Solar panels

While we are proud of the repairs completed, many devices could not be fixed due to limited time and lack of spare parts such as screens, batteries, and charging ports—especially for Samsung S Series phones and Bright solar lamps.

Repair cafés like this highlight the growing need for access to spare parts, repair tools, and local repair skills in our communities. They also demonstrate how repair culture can reduce e-waste, extend the life of devices, and support livelihoods.

🙏 We thank everyone who participated, especially the women and youth who joined us in celebrating repair, resilience, and sustainability.

The demand for repair in our communities is clear.
Now the challenge is ensuring access to tools, spare parts, and training so that more devices—and opportunities—can be restored.

We remain committed to expanding repair access, strengthening local skills, and building a culture of care, maintenance, and sustainability

♻️ Together, we continue building a culture of repair, care, and maintenance in our communities.



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Did you know that the supply chain behind every electronic device is long, complex, and resource-intensive?

From mining raw materials, manufacturing components, assembling parts, packaging, and shipping across continents — each step consumes energy, water, and labor. Behind every phone, laptop, or appliance are extracted minerals, factory workers, transport systems, and a significant carbon footprint.

That’s why at Community Creativity for Development (CC4D), we preach repair before replacement.

When we repair: 🔧 We extend the life of devices
🌍 We reduce electronic waste
⛏️ We reduce pressure on mining rare minerals
💚 We lower carbon emissions
👩🏽‍🔧 We create local jobs and build technical skills

Repair is not just fixing what is broken — it is climate action, economic empowerment, and community resilience in practice.

Before you replace, ask: Can it be repaired?

Another Powerful Testimony from our beneficiary in Yei South Sudan!

“One day, electricity abruptly went off and when it was restored, my laptop which was charging could not power on. Yet, I had an urgent deadline to submit a report. I panicked.

I quickly picked up my phone and called one of the CC4D volunteers who guided me step-by-step to remove the battery and fix it properly. I followed the procedure… and boom — it worked!
That moment changed how I see repair skills.
This experience shows why everyone should have basic repair knowledge and why every household should own a simple repair kit for maintaining everyday items."

Power fluctuations in many African countries including South Sudan are common and it has a great impact on electronics that are connected to power. Without basic troubleshooting skills, small problems can become expensive disasters.

Repair knowledge means:
✅ Saving money
✅ Saving time
✅ Reducing e-waste
✅ Building self-reliance
At CC4D, we believe repair is not just a skill — it’s resilience and contribute to community wellbeing, environmental and climate sustainability.
Let’s build a culture where every home is equipped with basic repair tools and confidence.

Such feedback inspires us to do even more. 💚

One project participant, Rose, shared:

“Before the electronics repair training, I couldn’t fix even simple devices and often relied on others, spending money I didn’t have. The hands-on sessions taught me to identify faults, use tools, and repair items like lights, radios, solar panels, and phones. Now, I not only fix my own devices but also help neighbours, saving money and reducing e-waste. This training gave me skills, confidence, and hope for a sustainable future. I’m grateful to CC4D for empowering me and transforming my life.”

Together, we are strengthening communities through skills, sustainability, and shared knowledge. 🌍🔧

♻️ Did You Know What E-Waste Is?

E-waste, or electronic waste, refers to discarded electrical and electronic devices such as mobile phones, laptops, radios, televisions, internet router and access points, keyboards, cameras, microphones, printers, printer cartridges, screens, chargers, batteries(rechargable or none rechargable), media storage devices and any other electronics and electrical appliances that are no longer working or wanted.

As technology advances rapidly, we upgrade our devices more often — but what happens to the old ones?

When e-waste is: 🔥 Burned
🗑️ Dumped in open spaces
🌍 Thrown into landfills
🛖 Kept in houses

It releases toxic substances like lead, mercury, and cadmium into our soil, water, and air— posing serious risks to human health and the environment.

But there’s good news! 💡

E-waste is not just waste — it’s a resource. Many electronic devices contain valuable materials that can be: 🔧 Repaired
🔄 Refurbished
♻️ Recycled
🎨 Upcycled into new products

By promoting repair culture, responsible disposal, and circular practices, we can reduce pollution, create green jobs, and protect our communities.

Tell us what you know about e-waste!

Let’s rethink e-waste.
Let’s repair more and waste less.

📷 The WEEE Centre

-Waste

🔥 What happens when e-waste is burned or dumped in our communities?

When old phones, batteries, computers, chargers, and cables are burned or thrown into open spaces, gardens, or residential areas, they don’t simply disappear.

❌ Burning e-waste releases toxic substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and dioxins into the air — contributing to respiratory diseases, cancer risks, and long-term environmental damage.
❌ Open dumping allows hazardous chemicals to seep into the soil and groundwater — contaminating the food we grow and the water we drink.
❌ Children, youth, and informal waste handlers are often the most exposed — facing serious and lasting health consequences.
❌ Valuable materials like copper, aluminum, and rare metals are lost instead of being recovered, repaired, or recycled.

Improper e-waste disposal is not just an environmental issue — it is a public health, economic, and social justice concern.

Yet solutions exist:Repair. 💡
We are promoting a culture of repair, reuse, refurbishment, structured collection systems, and community awareness, This extends electronic devices lifespan, reduces pollution, protects our communities, and creates green livelihood opportunities through the circular economy.

E-waste is not just trash — it is a resource when managed responsibly.

Let’s stop burning our future.
Let’s repair, reuse, and recycle responsibly.

👉 Support local repair initiatives
👉 Advocate for responsible e-waste management
👉 Choose repair before replacement
👉 Share this message to raise awareness

🔧 What do you know about repair?

For us; Repair is more than fixing what’s broken.
It’s about care over waste, skills over disposability, and people over products.

We believe Repair is a practical response to today’s biggest challenges—e-waste, unemployment, climate change, and digital exclusion. By extending the life of electronic devices, we reduce waste, lower costs, and create local, skills-based livelihoods.

☑️Every repaired phone keeps a family connected.
☑️Every fixed radio keeps a community informed.
☑️Every repaired device keeps toxic e-waste out of our soil and water.

We use repair to build resilient, rebuild community trust and community-led solutions.

👉Before you replace, pause. Repair first.
👉 Bring your broken devices to our repair café.
👉 Partner with us to strengthen local repair ecosystems
👉 Support our work through funding or in-kind donations

♻️The future isn’t disposable. It’s repairable.
Let’s build it together.

Every time someone walks into our Repair Café, we remind them of something deeper. we share one simple but powerful message:
It’s WRONG To REPLACE a device the moment it stops working—but it’s RIGHT To REPAIR it first.

When a phone, radio, or laptop stops working, replacing it immediately feels easy—but it comes at a cost to our environment, our wallets, and our communities.

Repairing first is an act of care.
It means choosing patience over waste, hope over disposal, and skills over shortcuts.

Repair before you replace. This simple choice helps reduce e-waste, save resources, and strengthen a culture of repair in our communities. ♻️🔧
Through repair, we restore not just devices—but dignity, livelihoods, and our relationship with the planet. 🌍🔧💚

🔧 Radio Fixed! 📻

When was the last time you cleaned your electronic device?

In the areas where we operate, many devices fail due to extreme heat and dust. Dust buildup blocks ventilation holes, causing devices to overheat and damaging small internal electronic components.

💡 Your device’s health matters.
Routine cleaning helps prevent overheating, improves performance, and extends the life of your electronics. Regular maintenance is a simple but powerful way to protect your devices and stay safe.

Let’s build a culture of care, repair, and prevention. ♻️🔌

At our CC4D Bright MakerSpace/Community Repair Café Center in Yei South Sudan, learning never stops—and neither does repairing! As our digital skills training program continues, Our repair café volunteers are busy fixing and restoring electronics, giving them a new life and keeping e-waste out of the community.

In a conflict-affected area like Yei, we don’t wait for the “perfect” space or tools. Instead, we make the most of what’s available, ensuring learning, fixing and restoring electronic devices—extending their lifespan and reducing e-waste in the community, empowering youth while community service continue.

A big thank you to Yei River County Youth Association for providing the space that makes this possible. 🙌

AVSI South Sudan UNHCR South Sudan UNICEF South Sudan UNDP South Sudan National Communication Authority - NCA MTN South Sudan STEMpower South Sudan Access Radio 88.8 FM-Yei.