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Start-up fund for Haritha: reopening a roadside café after floodwater
A roadside café in Pune needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after floodwater.
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For twelve years I have run a roadside café in Pune. In July, 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 Saturday, and I employed 2 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 4 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 $300 goes:
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $45
• Shop repairs and licensing: $45
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $210
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Haritha
Updates from Haritha
63% there. I made the first payment toward initial stock: coffee and pastries. Thank you.
Update from Pune: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 50% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
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Rooting for you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Greetings from Kolkata.
Sending good thoughts, Haritha. Hope the shop reopens soon. Greetings from Indore.
Praying for you. Hope you get there. After 11 years in construction I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Blessings.