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Help Caroline restart a roadside café in Leicester after a long illness and repossession
Caroline has run a roadside café for four years; a long illness and repossession destroyed the equipment, and $3,400 will put it back on its feet.
🇬🇧 Leicester, England, United Kingdom2,105 views
For four years I have run a roadside café in Leicester. In June, a long illness and repossession took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Monday, and I employed 2 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.
Once I'm back on my feet I plan to hire back the people I had to let go.
Where the $3,400 goes:
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $810
• Shop repairs and licensing: $165
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $2,425
I hope life is good to you.
Updates from Caroline
Good news. Because of your gifts ($207 in total) the first invoice got paid this week. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Priscila Rafaela Vieira 🇧🇷 · $20
“Hope things get better! - Brasília”
- Dylan L. Arnold 🇦🇺 · $50
- Kurniawan Haris Gozali 🇮🇩 · $25
“Hope things get better. Small amount but sent with love. - Denpasar”
- Ruma Sumaiya Mondal 🇧🇩 · $50
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $10
- Camila Heloísa Leite 🇧🇷 · $30
- Jacques Jules Denis 🇫🇷 · $43.50
- Hatem Majid Mourad 🇪🇬 · $50
- Maria Savchenko 🇺🇦 · $18
- Gabriel Serge Paul 🇫🇷 · $15
- Thomas Fontaine 🇫🇷 · $5
“Be well. From Lille with love.”
- Marcus N. Hudson 🇬🇧 · $50
- Alessia Raffaella Sanna 🇮🇹 · $44
- Maverick Prescott 🇺🇸 · $25
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Hope it all works out. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like.