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Back to business - Ouma's comeback in Machakos
Ouma lost a cutting table and overlocker to a fire in the building and needs $550 to reopen a sewing studio and support the family.
🇰🇪 90097, Machakos, Machakos, Kenya218 views
For nine years I have run a sewing studio in Machakos. In June, a fire in the building took a cutting table and overlocker. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Monday, 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.
I'll buy equipment from local suppliers and post photos and receipts as I go.
Where the $550 goes:
• Working capital for the first month: $125
• Initial stock: fabric: $70
• Replacing a cutting table and overlocker: $355
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Ouma
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Hope it all works out, Ouma. This could happen to any of us. My husband and I read this together. Thinking of Machakos.