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Maria needs a soldering station and testing tools to reopen a phone repair counter
A phone repair counter in Iloilo City needs help replacing a soldering station and testing tools after a storm that collapsed the roof.
🇵🇭 Iloilo City, Iloilo, Philippines1,857 views
For fifteen years I have run a phone repair counter in Iloilo City. In December, a storm that collapsed the roof took a soldering station and testing tools. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Thursday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 8 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: $115
• Initial stock: replacement parts: $50
• Replacing a soldering station and testing tools: $335
Thank you for reading my story.
- Maria
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- Komal Saxena 🇮🇳 · $5
“Stay strong. - Kanpur”
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“Best of luck - Sakai”
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“Sending love. Saw your post and had to give. - Columbia”
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“Good luck. Please keep us posted. - Gazipur”
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“Thinking of you. Please keep us posted. - San Francisco”
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“Rooting for you. Please keep us posted. - Niterói”
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- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $5
“Good luck. Hope the February deadline works out. - Riverside”
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Rooting for you. Small businesses are the heart of Iloilo City. Hope you're open again soon. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day.
hope this works out for you. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Thinking of Iloilo City.
Sending good thoughts, Maria. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Take care.
I hope things turn around soon. My cousin had a similar thing happen so this one hit home.