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Help Samuel restart a bicycle repair shop in Gwagwalada after a break-in
Samuel lost a full set of tools to a break-in and needs $500 to reopen a bicycle repair shop and support the family.
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For twelve years I have run a bicycle repair shop in Gwagwalada. In June, a break-in took a full set of tools. 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 4 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 $500 goes:
• Working capital for the first month: $95
• Shop repairs and licensing: $50
• Replacing a full set of tools: $355
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- Hamza Waseem Mughal 🇵🇰 · $77
“Wishing you the best. Hope the October deadline works out. - Peshawar”
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Take care, Samuel. Hope you get there. Greetings from Grenoble
I hope things turn around soon. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of Gwagwalada.
Stay strong. Hope the shop reopens soon. After 25 years in social work I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Greetings from Gaya.
Thinking of you and your family, Samuel. Shared this with my family.
Sending strength. Hope you get there. I hope October is when things finally get easier. God bless.
take care, Samuel. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Love from Nijmegen
good luck, Samuel. I'd happily buy from you once you're back up. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Blessings.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't give up. Greetings from Ciudad de México.
Stay strong, Samuel. I hope things turn around soon. Don't give up. God bless.
Sending love, Samuel. Gave what I could, wish it was more. All the best.