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Help Geneviève restart a roadside café in Toulon after a storm that collapsed the roof

Geneviève lost an espresso machine and grinder to a storm that collapsed the roof and needs $2,600 to reopen a roadside café and support the family.

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Geneviève Josiane Giraud
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Toulon
For nine years I have run a roadside café in Toulon. In June, a storm that collapsed the roof took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me. Before that, my customers came every Tuesday, and I employed 2 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. Once I'm back on my feet I plan to hire back the people I had to let go. Where the $2,600 goes: • Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $1,300 • Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $680 • Shop repairs and licensing: $270 • Working capital for the first month: $350 You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it. - Geneviève
#small-business#livelihood#restart

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  • Cynthia J. DaltonAddress verifiedPhoto verified

    you're not alone, Geneviève. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Thinking of Toulon.

    • Vani M. Nanda

      hope the shop reopens soon. Greetings from Yonkers.

      • Kaito Minato Fukuda

        Thanks for sharing this, Geneviève. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Take care.

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