Place de Milan, Lyon

Mobile Humanitarian Repair Lab

The Mobile Humanitarian Repair Lab is an itinerant place of resources allowing forcibly displaced persons to fix and enhance everyday objects themselves and to initiate a process of resilience on the migratory route.

It is an experimental solidarity program that is part of the French Red Cross.

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Repair: provision of tools for repair and volunteer support on:

• Textile / Leather (tents, shoes, sleeping bags, clothes, backpacks...)
• Electronics (lamps, charging stations, mobile phones...)
• Other small repairs (hard to list what's most essential to each single person)

Protection:  provision of machinery and protective materials for personal property:

• Lamination (for administrative documents, photos...)
• Waterproofing (textile/leather)
• Digitization (scan and possible creation of email address)

Personalization:  provision of tools and materials for creative customization of personal belongings