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Start-up fund for Sumbal: reopening a roadside café after a long illness and repossession
A roadside café in Rawalpindi needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after a long illness and repossession.
🇵🇰 Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan1,195 views
For three years I have run a roadside café in Rawalpindi. In July, a long illness and repossession 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 8 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 $450 goes:
• Shop repairs and licensing: $50
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $90
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $310
Every share and every dollar helps.
- Sumbal
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- Kayode Festus Odukoya 🇳🇬 · $4
“Hang in there. Hope the October deadline works out. - Lagos”
- Inna Alina Sidorenko 🇮🇹 · $25
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Is there anything that isn't money that would help Sumbal?
Praying for you, Sumbal. I'd happily buy from you once you're back up. We're a small family in Bandung but we're thinking of you. All the best.
Sending good thoughts, Sumbal. Shared it with a few friends. Thinking of Rawalpindi.
shared this with my family. After 24 years in engineering I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Thinking of Rawalpindi