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Start-up fund for Patricia: reopening a phone repair counter after floodwater
Patricia lost a soldering station and testing tools to floodwater and needs $2,700 to reopen a phone repair counter and support the family.
🇨🇦 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada2,965 views
For three years I have run a phone repair counter in Winnipeg. In August, floodwater 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 Sunday, and I employed 3 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 6 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 $2,700 goes:
• Replacing a soldering station and testing tools: $1,550
• Initial stock: replacement parts: $560
• Shop repairs and licensing: $270
• Working capital for the first month: $320
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Patricia
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Good luck. Hope the shop reopens soon. Wish I lived closer to Makati so I could bring a meal!
Hope you get there. My father had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Blessings
hope it all works out. I'd happily buy from you once you're back up. My husband and I read this together. God bless
small businesses are the heart of Winnipeg. Hope you're open again soon. It's not much but it's yours. Love from Zaporizhzhia.
sending good thoughts, Patricia. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't give up. Blessings.
Sending good thoughts, Patricia. Shared this with my family. God bless