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Help Verónica restart a roadside café in Buenos Aires after a long illness and repossession
A roadside café in Buenos Aires needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after a long illness and repossession.
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina1,575 views
For twelve years I have run a roadside café in Buenos Aires. In May, a long illness and repossession took an espresso machine and grinder. 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 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 $850 goes:
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $600
• Shop repairs and licensing: $135
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $115
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
- Verónica
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sending love. Small businesses are the heart of Buenos Aires. Hope you're open again soon. My neighbor in Amsterdam donated after I showed her your page.
Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Buenos Aires!
Thank you. If you're in Buenos Aires I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Let me know if you want more detail.
Hope things get better soon, Verónica. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. All the best
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Verónica.
Everything on the list is an amount I've been quoted or invoiced. replacing an espresso machine and grinder comes first ($600) and I'll update the page as each thing gets paid. Thanks for asking.
Rooting for you. Hope you make a strong comeback. Greetings from Bekasi
hope things get better soon. Looking forward to the next update. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Take care.
So sorry you're going through this, Verónica. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Buenos Aires.