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Back to business - Marie's comeback in Berlin
Marie lost a cutting table and overlocker to a long illness and repossession and needs $3,550 to reopen a sewing studio and support the family.
🇩🇪 Berlin, Berlin, Germany1,768 views
For fifteen years I have run a sewing studio in Berlin. In March, a long illness and repossession took a cutting table and overlocker. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Saturday, and I employed 3 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 8 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 $3,550 goes:
• Replacing a cutting table and overlocker: $2,250
• Initial stock: fabric: $600
• Shop repairs and licensing: $320
• Working capital for the first month: $380
Thanks for reading all this.
- Marie
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thanks for sharing this, Marie. Hope this works out for you. Wish I lived closer to Iztapalapa so I could bring a meal. All the best
Best of luck, Marie. Looking forward to the next update. Put this on a community board in Guadalajara this morning. All the best.
Thinking of you and your family, Marie. This could happen to any of us.
Hope it all works out, Marie. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did.
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Marie
Replacing a cutting table and overlocker is $2,250 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page.
Sending strength, Marie. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. God bless.
Good luck. Shared this with my family. We're a small family in Surakarta but we're thinking of you. Love from Surakarta.
Small businesses are the heart of Berlin. Hope you're open again soon. Greetings from Quezon City
Thanks for sharing this, Marie. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Please keep us posted. Love from Piraeus.
So sorry you're going through this, Marie. Hope the shop reopens soon. Thinking of Berlin.
wishing you the best. Shared it with a few friends. I have a 13 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Thinking of Berlin.
thinking of you and your family. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. God bless.
thinking of you. Shared this with my family. Love from Thủ Đức.
Wishing you peace, Marie. Small businesses are the heart of Berlin. Hope you're open again soon.
Hope the shop reopens soon. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Berlin