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Bhavani needs a commercial oven to reopen a neighborhood bakery
Bhavani lost a commercial oven to a fire in the building and needs $400 to reopen a neighborhood bakery and support the family.
🇮🇳 Durgapur, West Bengal, India1,702 views
For three years I have run a neighborhood bakery in Durgapur. In January, a fire in the building took a commercial oven. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Thursday, and I employed 2 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 $400 goes:
• Replacing a commercial oven: $230
• Shop repairs and licensing: $50
• Working capital for the first month: $120
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
- Bhavani
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Wishing you peace, Bhavani. Your post was clear and honest
is there anything that isn't money that would help Bhavani?
Thank you. If you're in Durgapur I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Let me know if you want more detail.
Wishing you peace, Bhavani. This could happen to any of us. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Keep going, Bhavani. Hope this works out for you. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Good luck. Small businesses are the heart of Durgapur. Hope you're open again soon. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Love from Mecca.
best of luck. Hope you get there. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.
Thinking of you and your family, Bhavani. Shared this with my family. Love from Bornova.
Rooting for you. Shared this with my family. My neighbor in Jimma donated after I showed her your page. All the best.
praying for you, Bhavani. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Greetings from Madina
Take care, Bhavani. Hope the shop reopens soon. Greetings from Moscow.
stay strong. Your post was clear and honest. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.
you're not alone, Bhavani. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Durgapur.
You're not alone, Bhavani. Hope you get there. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Durgapur.