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Amira needs an espresso machine and grinder to reopen a roadside café
Amira lost an espresso machine and grinder to a storm that collapsed the roof and needs $2,250 to reopen a roadside café and support the family.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia2,246 views
For fifteen years I have run a roadside café in Mecca. In June, a storm that collapsed the roof took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Tuesday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 5 weeks.
This business pays my children's school fees and rent. I have already started working from home in small ways, but I can't meet orders without proper equipment.
Every contribution brings me closer to reopening, and I promise to post photos as I buy each item.
I'll buy equipment from local suppliers and post photos and receipts as I go.
Where the $2,250 goes:
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $1,400
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $470
• Shop repairs and licensing: $190
• Working capital for the first month: $190
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
- Amira
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- Dhanush N. Rao 🇮🇳 · $65.50
“Only $66 but hope it helps. - Surat”
- Mohan N. Varma 🇮🇳 · $15
“Take care of yourselves - Amritsar”
- Latha M. Iyengar 🇮🇳 · $100
- Emeka Paul Nwachukwu 🇳🇬 · $12
“Praying for you. Thought of Amira all day after reading this.”
- Cláudia Luana Moraes 🇧🇷 · $50
- Ximena P. Díaz 🇲🇽 · $5
“Best of luck. Hope you get the rest soon. - Mérida”
- Gbenga Lucky Adeyemi 🇳🇬 · $100
“Good luck. Hope you get the rest soon. - Kaduna”
- Sari Putri Mahendra 🇮🇩 · $25
- Neil N. Alcantara 🇵🇭 · $100
- Idris Jamal Kamel 🇸🇦 · $10
- Santhosh M. Das 🇮🇳 · $10
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- Joshua E. Enriquez 🇵🇭 · $5
- Anonymous 🇩🇪 · $15
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- Hậu Vinh Mai 🇻🇳 · $15
- Saanvi A. Agarwal 🇮🇳 · $28
- Tiffany W. Radcliffe 🇬🇧 · $5
“You got this. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Newcastle upon Tyne”
- Claire Florence Simon 🇫🇷 · $15
“Hang in there - Montpellier”
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $61.50
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Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Mecca
Thank you. If you're in Mecca I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Good question.
Keep going, Amira. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Take care.
Keep going, Amira. Hope the shop reopens soon. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless
Wishing you the best, Amira. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Mecca.