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Tomás needs a full set of tools to reopen a bicycle repair shop
Tomás lost a full set of tools to a break-in and needs $3,600 to reopen a bicycle repair shop and support the family.
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States2,874 views
For six years I have run a bicycle repair shop in Dallas. In December, a break-in took a full set of tools. 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 3 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 $3,600 goes:
• Replacing a full set of tools: $2,000
• Initial stock: spare parts: $650
• Shop repairs and licensing: $430
• Working capital for the first month: $520
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Tomás
Updates from Tomás
Quick update: $615 raised so far (17%). the plan for working capital for the first month is now scheduled. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
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Best of luck. Hope this works out for you. Love from Rio de Janeiro
Wishing you peace, Tomás. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Dallas
Best of luck. Hope you get there. We're a small family in Ballarat but we're thinking of you
Sending love. Hope the shop reopens soon. Love from Pune.
Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to the next update. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care
Sending strength, Tomás. Hope you get there. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Blessings