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Hawa needs a commercial oven to reopen a neighborhood bakery
Hawa has run a neighborhood bakery for six years; a storm that collapsed the roof destroyed the equipment, and $3,800 will put it back on its feet.
🇫🇷 86003, Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France3,255 views
For six years I have run a neighborhood bakery in Poitiers. In June, a storm that collapsed the roof 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 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 4 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 $3,800 goes:
• Replacing a commercial oven: $2,200
• Initial stock: flour, butter and sugar: $590
• Shop repairs and licensing: $510
• Working capital for the first month: $500
Every share and every dollar helps.
- Hawa
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Good luck. Hope you get there. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Blessings!
good luck. Shared it with a few friends. I went through something like this 2 years ago and strangers helped me out!
Good luck, Hawa. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. God bless
Hope things get better soon, Hawa. Hope the shop reopens soon. We're a small family in São Paulo but we're thinking of you. Blessings
Sending good thoughts, Hawa. Shared this with my family. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Take care.
best of luck. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.
Rooting for you, Hawa. It takes guts to ask. Well done.
Praying for you, Hawa. Hope the shop reopens soon. Take care