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Devi needs a cutting table and overlocker to reopen a sewing studio
A sewing studio in Mthatha needs help replacing a cutting table and overlocker after the demolition of the market.
🇿🇦 Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa1,494 views
For fifteen years I have run a sewing studio in Mthatha. In January, the demolition of the market took a cutting table and overlocker. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Thursday, and I employed 3 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 5 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 $850 goes:
• Initial stock: fabric: $80
• Replacing a cutting table and overlocker: $600
• Shop repairs and licensing: $170
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
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- Akash D. Soni 🇮🇳 · $25
- Anonymous 🇮🇹 · $66
- Umesh Sandeep Khadka 🇳🇵 · $20
“Be well. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Pokhara”
- Karin Nina Van den Heuvel 🇳🇱 · $5
- Laura C. Muñoz 🇲🇽 · $44
- Obiageli Khadija Zakari 🇳🇬 · $25
“Thinking of you. Hope the May deadline works out. - Lagos”
- Rina Runa Hossain 🇧🇩 · $50
“All the best. - Cox's Bazar”
- Gabriel W. Ochoa 🇨🇴 · $100
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Thinking of you and your family, Devi. It takes guts to ask. Well done. God bless.
Shared this with my family. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. God bless
Hope things get better soon, Devi. Hope this works out for you. Blessings