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Back to business - Elena's comeback in Yekaterinburg

A bicycle repair shop in Yekaterinburg needs help replacing a full set of tools after the demolition of the market.

🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia1,908 views
Elena Zlata Koval
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Yekaterinburg
For six years I have run a bicycle repair shop in Yekaterinburg. In March, the demolition of the market took a full set of tools. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me. Before that, my customers came every Monday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 12 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. Once I'm back on my feet I plan to hire back the people I had to let go. Where the $900 goes: • Replacing a full set of tools: $410 • Initial stock: spare parts: $220 • Shop repairs and licensing: $185 • Working capital for the first month: $85 Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot. - Elena
#small-business#livelihood#restart

Updates from Elena

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 70% funded and the plan for initial stock: spare parts is now scheduled.

  2. Update from Yekaterinburg: I met with the supplier and confirmed the amounts. We're at 42% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us. - Elena

  3. Small update. $265 so far, I made the first payment toward initial stock: spare parts.

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    “Hope things get better. Been where you're, it gets better. - Brasília”

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    “Rooting for you. Thought of Elena all day after reading this. - Ogbomosho”

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    “Sending love. Shared with friends too. - Medina”

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    “Get well soon. Shared with friends too. - Tijuana”

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  • Odette Zoé PicardID verified

    Rooting for you, Elena. This could happen to any of us. Wish I lived closer to Shubra so I could bring a meal!

    • Mustafa Khalid Metwally

      Small businesses are the heart of Yekaterinburg. Hope you're open again soon. We're a small family in Tema but we're thinking of you

      • Adrián R. Cordero

        Wishing you peace, Elena. Shared it with a few friends

        • Heather A. Gonzalez

          Hope it all works out, Elena. Your post was clear and honest. Thinking of Yekaterinburg

          • Taiga Ren Tanaka

            Thinking of you and your family, Elena. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. God bless.

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