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Help Ursula restart a small grocery stall in Duisburg after a storm that collapsed the roof
Ursula lost a cold-storage unit to a storm that collapsed the roof and needs $2,650 to reopen a small grocery stall and support the family.
🇩🇪 Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany1,692 views
For fifteen years I have run a small grocery stall in Duisburg. In March, a storm that collapsed the roof took a cold-storage unit. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Wednesday, and I employed 1 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 $2,650 goes:
• Replacing a cold-storage unit: $1,750
• Initial stock: fresh produce: $250
• Shop repairs and licensing: $230
• Working capital for the first month: $420
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Ursula
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Hope it all works out. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Blessings.