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Start-up fund for Ahmad: reopening a roadside café after floodwater
Ahmad lost an espresso machine and grinder to floodwater and needs $550 to reopen a roadside café and support the family.
🇮🇩 Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia271 views
For fifteen years I have run a roadside café in Makassar. In September, floodwater took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Friday, 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 $550 goes:
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $320
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $105
• Shop repairs and licensing: $75
• Working capital for the first month: $50
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Ahmad
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Thinking of you and your family, Ahmad. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. All the best.