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Help Laura restart a tailoring shop in Milan after a long illness and repossession
Laura has run a tailoring shop for six years; a long illness and repossession destroyed the equipment, and $2,500 will put it back on its feet.
🇮🇹 Milan, Lombardy, Italy847 views
For six years I have run a tailoring shop in Milan. In April, a long illness and repossession took three industrial sewing machines. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Sunday, and I employed 1 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.
I'll buy equipment from local suppliers and post photos and receipts as I go.
Where the $2,500 goes:
• Replacing three industrial sewing machines: $1,150
• Initial stock: fabric and thread: $650
• Shop repairs and licensing: $210
• Working capital for the first month: $490
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good luck. This could happen to any of us. Wish I lived closer to Bangkok so I could bring a meal. Thinking of Milan.