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Back to business - Alma's comeback in Stockholm
A fish stall in Stockholm needs help replacing a freezer and scales after floodwater.
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For four years I have run a fish stall in Stockholm. In July, floodwater took a freezer and scales. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Saturday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 10 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 $2,600 goes:
• Replacing a freezer and scales: $1,350
• Initial stock: the first catch: $610
• Working capital for the first month: $640
Thanks for reading all this.
- Alma
Updates from Alma
Wanted to say thank you properly. 66% funded and I made the first payment toward initial stock: the first catch.
Update from Stockholm: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 38% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
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rooting for you, Alma. This could happen to any of us.
Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Alma.
The list at the bottom is the whole picture. replacing a freezer and scales is the biggest at $1,350. Good question.
Sending strength, Alma. Shared it with a few friends. Thinking of Stockholm.
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Alma?
Hope things get better soon, Alma. Hope you get there. Thinking of Stockholm.
I hope things turn around soon. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Greetings from Kampala.
how is Alma doing now?
Keep going. Hope you make a strong comeback. Take care.
Thinking of you. This could happen to any of us. Greetings from Manchester
thanks for sharing this, Alma. Hope you make a strong comeback
sending strength. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Blessings.
Your post was clear and honest. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Thinking of Stockholm.