Save our bakery
Fundraising campaign by
Larissa Roberta da Cruz
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US$1,110.00raised of $8,000.00 goal goal
No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities
Campaign Story
My name is Larissa and I'm 18 years old. My family runs a small bakery that my parents started 16 years ago. The bakery is called Jacarandá after a Brazilian tree, which is said to be as strong as steel.
My 10-year-old sister is Autistic, and this reality comes with complexities, but it is also a unique way of experiencing the world. Along with the pandemic caused by Covid-19, my mother became ill due to a progressive disease called ankylosing spondylitis (a rare form of arthritis) which left her weak, and unable to keep up with production by hand.
As a family, we understand that with my sister's developmental needs, my mother's illness, and the pandemic, we will no longer be able to continue the family business (our livelihood) without much needed support.
The pandemic has led to a profound drop in earnings. We have all worked extra hard as a family but we have come to a stage where we have had to stop most of the bakery’s activities as there are many days that my mother cannot work at all, and our dad has to take care of us.
We urgently need to buy necessary equipment to make production easier, and less physically demanding taking into consideration my mother's illness. For example:
- An industrial dishwasher, as we do this chore at the bakery everyday by hand.
- A commercial dough kneader, would really help with speeding up the production line and saving my mother's energy.
- A new oven as the one we have now is 16 years old and needs repairing.
- Finally, a coffee machine as we demonstrate in our video we still make by hand through a cloth.
All this equipment is unattainable in Brazil due to taxes and fees. To give you an idea a dishwasher of a less known brand, here will cost no less than 10.000,00 Brazilian Reais approximately €1700. The minimum wage in Brazil is 4.54R$ (€0.80 cent an hour). With no Social Welfare scheme available, my family’s situation is worsened by Covid-19 and we are left on our own.
Please help keep old traditions alive with new technology to fully reopen the bakery after Covid-19, we are kindly asking for your support in saving our bakery.
My target is to raise €6.500. Approximately USD 8.000. With this amount we would be able to save Jacarandá!
Whatever the amount, we will be very grateful.
With immense Gratitude, thank you from my family and I.
Padaria Antiga Jacaranda, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
We sincerely invite each one of you to come to our bakery one day, to sit with us at a table under the trees, to get to know each other and laugh with joy for life.
Organizer
- Larissa Roberta da Cruz
- Campaign Owner
- Botucatu, BR
Donors
- Stefan Karadzic
- Donated on Apr 19, 2021
- Nicolas Guemene
- Donated on Feb 21, 2021
Finn's friend
- Karen Reidy
- Donated on Jan 27, 2021
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Donors & Comments
- Stefan Karadzic
- Donated on Apr 19, 2021
- Nicolas Guemene
- Donated on Feb 21, 2021
Finn's friend
- Karen Reidy
- Donated on Jan 27, 2021
- Anonymous
- Donated on Jan 17, 2021
- Sandra Loftus
- Donated on Jan 05, 2021
Wishing you every success xx
- Chistine Jesch
- Donated on Dec 24, 2020
With best wishes...
- Eoghan Murphy
- Donated on Dec 22, 2020
I wish you luck with your venture during this very challenging time. You have great advocates here in Ireland. Happy Christmas, Eoghan Murphy
- Graham Stewart
- Donated on Dec 19, 2020
Merry Christmas!
- Ruth Cadden
- Donated on Dec 19, 2020
- Larissa Roberta da Cruz
- Posted On Dec 14, 2020
Hello everyone! every day with your presence and the intention expressed in the donation that our paths are established at that moment and the wishes that everything goes well, has nourished our strengths. And what they are doing there is no word to classify the gratitude we feel! may it be a beautiful and enlightened end of the year for you all! And 2021 be a path of great achievement to all of you.