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Kiran needs an espresso machine and grinder to reopen a roadside café
A roadside café in Islamabad needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after a fire in the building.
🇵🇰 Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan611 views
For fifteen years I have run a roadside café in Islamabad. In September, a fire in the building 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 12 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 $400 goes:
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $250
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $65
• Shop repairs and licensing: $25
• Working capital for the first month: $60
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Kiran
Updates from Kiran
Quick update: $409 raised so far (102%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($278 in total) I met with the supplier and confirmed the amounts. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Quick update: $43 raised so far (11%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them. - Kiran
- Nina Tatiana Orlov 🇺🇦 · $10
- Brielle A. Bates 🇬🇧 · $20
- Sunil M. Yadav 🇺🇸 · $20
“Hope the January deadline works out. - Cambridge”
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $75
- Manfred Moritz Engel 🇩🇪 · $56
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $100
- Nahid Tuhin Bhuiyan 🇧🇩 · $25
- Leyla Gizem Kurt 🇹🇷 · $100
- Roman Wright 🇺🇸 · $10
- Gabriel Luís Coelho 🇧🇷 · $33
- Boris Anton Belyaev 🇺🇦 · $10
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Looking forward to the next update. Love from Sandton.
Hope things get better soon, Kiran. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. All the best.
Thanks for sharing this, Kiran. Hope the shop reopens soon. We're a small family in London but we're thinking of you. All the best.
Stay strong, Kiran. Looking forward to the next update. Put this on a community board in San Diego this morning. Blessings
Small businesses are the heart of Islamabad. Hope you're open again soon. Please keep us posted. Thinking of Islamabad.