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Cherry needs a commercial oven to reopen a neighborhood bakery
Cherry has run a neighborhood bakery for nine years; floodwater destroyed the equipment, and $550 will put it back on its feet.
🇵🇭 Metro Manila, Philippines581 views
For nine years I have run a neighborhood bakery in Manila. In June, floodwater took a commercial oven. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Saturday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 10 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 $550 goes:
• Replacing a commercial oven: $190
• Initial stock: flour, butter and sugar: $135
• Shop repairs and licensing: $90
• Working capital for the first month: $135
Thanks for reading all this.
- Cherry
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- Chamara Isuru Kumarasinghe 🇱🇰 · $7
“Wish I could do more. Thought of Cherry all day after reading this.”
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- Rémi Philippe 🇫🇷 · $50
“Good luck. My sister told me about this one. - Marseille”
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Small businesses are the heart of Manila. Hope you're open again soon. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.
Praying for you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. It's not much but it's yours. Thinking of Manila.
Wishing you the best. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We're a small family in Victoria but we're thinking of you
you're not alone. Hope the shop reopens soon. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless.
Thinking of you and your family. Hope you get there. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like.
Wishing you the best, Cherry. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. I hope September is when things finally get easier. Greetings from Oakland!
You're not alone, Cherry. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My husband and I read this together. Thinking of Manila.