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Birgit needs a freezer and scales to reopen a fish stall
A fish stall in Augsburg needs help replacing a freezer and scales after floodwater.
🇩🇪 Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany3,441 views
For twelve years I have run a fish stall in Augsburg. In June, floodwater took a freezer and scales. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Sunday, and I employed 1 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 $2,150 goes:
• Initial stock: the first catch: $500
• Replacing a freezer and scales: $1,400
• Shop repairs and licensing: $250
Thanks for being kind about this.
- Birgit
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It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Augsburg.
Thanks for sharing this, Birgit. I'd happily buy from you once you're back up. Take care
sending strength, Birgit. It takes guts to ask. Well done. I hope October is when things finally get easier. God bless.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Greetings from Mumbai.
Is initial stock: the first catch the biggest cost or is there more coming?
Initial stock: the first catch is $500 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. It helps to be asked.
hang in there, Birgit. I'd happily buy from you once you're back up.
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. After 27 years in customer support I know how hard it's to ask for anything.
hope things get better soon, Birgit. This could happen to any of us.
Hope it all works out. I'd happily buy from you once you're back up. Thinking of Augsburg