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Start-up fund for Mathilda: reopening a sewing studio after floodwater
Mathilda has run a sewing studio for three years; floodwater destroyed the equipment, and $3,050 will put it back on its feet.
🇩🇪 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany3,725 views
For three years I have run a sewing studio in Dortmund. In August, floodwater took a cutting table and overlocker. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Wednesday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 10 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 $3,050 goes:
• Working capital for the first month: $530
• Replacing a cutting table and overlocker: $2,150
• Initial stock: fabric: $370
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Hope things get better soon, Mathilda. Shared it with a few friends. Blessings
Small businesses are the heart of Dortmund. Hope you're open again soon. Please keep us posted. Love from Savar!
Best of luck, Mathilda. This could happen to any of us. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too.
Sending good thoughts, Mathilda. Hope you get there. Blessings.
Hope things get better soon. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Blessings.