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Help Verónica restart a roadside café in Medellín after a storm that collapsed the roof

A roadside café in Medellín needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after a storm that collapsed the roof.

🇨🇴 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia1,615 views
Verónica K. Quintero
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Medellín
For fifteen years I have run a roadside café in Medellín. In July, a storm that collapsed the roof took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me. Before that, my customers came every Monday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 3 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 $900 goes: • Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $155 • Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $640 • Working capital for the first month: $105 Thank you so much.
#small-business#livelihood#restart

Updates from Verónica

  1. 108% there. I made the first payment toward replacing an espresso machine and grinder. Thank you.

  2. We're at 83% thanks to 10 of you. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. More news soon.

  3. 23% there. I made the first payment toward initial stock: coffee and pastries. Thank you.

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  • Márcia Patrícia Almeida 🇧🇷 · $15

    “Hope you get the rest soon. - Belém”

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    “All the best. - Spokane”

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    “Praying for you. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Thika”

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    “Praying for you! - Christchurch”

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    “God bless. Only $50 but hope it helps. - London”

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  • Anonymous 🇺🇬 · $30

    “Sending love. Thought of Verónica all day after reading this.”

  • Metin Ömer Duman 🇹🇷 · $26
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  • Gaurav S. Kashyap

    Rooting for you, Verónica. I'd happily buy from you once you're back up. God bless.

    • Omer Omer Zardari

      Hope things get better soon, Verónica. Hope this works out for you. After 11 years in construction I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Greetings from Aurora

      • Jyoti L. Soni

        Hope it all works out. Looking forward to the next update. I hope October is when things finally get easier.

        • Burcu Irmak ÖnderPhoto verified

          Stay strong, Verónica. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Blessings

          • Vijay GrewalPhoto verified

            So sorry you're going through this, Verónica. Hope the shop reopens soon. My husband and I read this together.

            $1,251.50 raised of $900

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