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Start-up fund for Lakshmi: reopening a roadside café after a storm that collapsed the roof
A roadside café in Nagpur needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after a storm that collapsed the roof.
🇮🇳 Nagpur, Maharashtra, India1,273 views
For four years I have run a roadside café in Nagpur. In August, 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 3 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 5 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:
• Shop repairs and licensing: $100
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $115
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $285
Every share and every dollar helps.
Updates from Lakshmi
Good news. Because of your gifts ($250 in total) I met with the supplier and confirmed the amounts. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Quick update: $130 raised so far (26%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Irfan Dwi Suryadi 🇮🇩 · $28
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $10
- Beatrix M. Pillay 🇿🇦 · $20
- Tatiane Priscila Lopes 🇧🇷 · $34
- Isla J. Haynes 🇺🇸 · $100
- Hazel N. Wang 🇨🇦 · $20
- Evans Karanja Onyango 🇰🇪 · $10
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $20
- Hannah Adjei 🇬🇭 · $100
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Good luck, Lakshmi. Hope you get there. Thinking of Nagpur.
Rooting for you. Hope you make a strong comeback. My neighbor in Sacramento donated after I showed her your page. Love from Sacramento!
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Lakshmi?
Sending love, Lakshmi. Hope you get there. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like.
Take care, Lakshmi. Small businesses are the heart of Nagpur. Hope you're open again soon. All the best.
Sending good thoughts, Lakshmi. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Thinking of Nagpur