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Back to business - Guilherme's comeback in Caxias do Sul

Guilherme has run a roadside café for nine years; the demolition of the market destroyed the equipment, and $350 will put it back on its feet.

🇧🇷 Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil666 views
Guilherme Gonçalves
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Caxias do Sul
For nine years I have run a roadside café in Caxias do Sul. In August, the demolition of the market 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 3 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 7 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 $350 goes: • Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $120 • Shop repairs and licensing: $100 • Working capital for the first month: $130 Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.

Updates from Guilherme

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 37% funded and the plan for working capital for the first month is now scheduled.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 15% now ($53). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.

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  • Hậu Bui 🇻🇳 · $10

    “Be well. From Hồ Chí Minh City with love.”

  • Óscar Alejandro Cordero 🇺🇸 · $100
  • Taras Ihor Marchenko 🇺🇦 · $75

    “From my family to yours. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Kyiv”

  • Samuel Seyi Daramola 🇳🇬 · $33

    “Gave what I could this week. - Wudil”

  • Yevhen Novikov 🇺🇦 · $20

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  • You're not alone. Hope you make a strong comeback. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day!

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