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Help Catalin restart a sewing studio in Timișoara after a break-in
A sewing studio in Timișoara needs help replacing a cutting table and overlocker after a break-in.
🇷🇴 Timișoara, Timiș, Romania1,503 views
For twelve years I have run a sewing studio in Timișoara. In November, a break-in took a cutting table and overlocker. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Saturday, and I employed 3 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 $850 goes:
• Replacing a cutting table and overlocker: $540
• Shop repairs and licensing: $90
• Initial stock: fabric: $220
Every share and every dollar helps.
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Is there anything that isn't money that would help Catalin?
Thank you. If you're in Timișoara I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great.
So sorry you're going through this, Catalin. This could happen to any of us. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day
Good luck. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Timișoara.
Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Sent it to 16 people at work