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Help Kioko restart a tailoring shop in Nairobi after floodwater
Kioko lost three industrial sewing machines to floodwater and needs $450 to reopen a tailoring shop and support the family.
🇰🇪 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya956 views
For nine years I have run a tailoring shop in Nairobi. In September, floodwater took three industrial sewing machines. 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 6 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 $450 goes:
• Replacing three industrial sewing machines: $200
• Initial stock: fabric and thread: $80
• Shop repairs and licensing: $75
• Working capital for the first month: $95
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
- Kioko
Updates from Kioko
Thank you all. We're at 66% now ($299). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.
- Mateo D. Hamilton 🇨🇦 · $100
“Hope it all works out. - Brampton”
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $30
- Svetlana Anna Alexandrov 🇺🇦 · $75
“Hope things get better. Hope the January deadline works out. - Kyiv”
- Ramon H. Garcia 🇵🇭 · $100
- Hauwa Mercy Akinwale 🇳🇬 · $25
- Vasiliki Evangelia Papadakis 🇬🇷 · $10
“Sending love. Thought of Kioko all day after reading this.”
- Gabriela Contreras 🇺🇸 · $10
- Ryan T. Harvey 🇺🇸 · $82
- Juan G. Lozano 🇲🇽 · $100
“God bless. Hope the January deadline works out. - Celaya”
- Tatiane Simone Miranda 🇧🇷 · $71.50
- Joseph Mwangi Kioko 🇹🇿 · $5
- Tim Peter Winter 🇩🇪 · $30
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Best of luck. This could happen to any of us. Greetings from Rajshahi.
How is Kioko doing now?
small businesses are the heart of Nairobi. Hope you're open again soon. God bless.
Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Kioko.
Replacing three industrial sewing machines is $200 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Good question.
Sending good thoughts, Kioko. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Take care.
You're not alone, Kioko. Looking forward to the next update. Put this on a community board in Cleveland this morning
Hang in there, Kioko. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes
This could happen to any of us. After 27 years in logistics I know how hard it's to ask for anything. All the best
Hope it all works out. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We're a small family in Awka but we're thinking of you.
best of luck, Kioko. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Love from Sherbrooke.
Hope things get better soon. Hope the shop reopens soon. Love from Tarragona.
wishing you peace, Kioko. Hope the shop reopens soon. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. God bless
Take care, Kioko. Shared this with my family. After 21 years in engineering I know how hard it's to ask for anything
Stay strong. Shared it with a few friends. Greetings from Nottingham