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IndieGogo

To Contribute: Indiegogo Campaign - Help Struggling family to open a small business

Help strugling family to open a Small Business

Hard working family, Will use contributions for a better future, By working even harder.

 

Short Summary

Family with high standard working ethics.  We believe in making money work for us and better ourselves and our future.  Let us introduce ourselves.  We are the Rautenbach Family.  Dad, Mom, Son and Grandmom.  We have fallen on some hard times in the last few years.  Long story short.  First Grandmom lost her job due to the economic difficulties experienced by Small Businesses.  She could not even claim her compensation package because the business was declared bankrupt.  To help out we moved into one house.  Things were great for a while and then IT happened.  The thing you are totally unprepared for. Your health fails you when you need it the most.  Dad suddenly started having unexplained seizures.  We had him in numerous hospitals and all kinds of tests were done.  From the Nerologists to the Cardioligists and even Lumber Punches.  Still they could not identify why he was sezuiring the way he was.  One weeklong test even confirmed that he would have several episodes a day.  After a lots of tests and specialists from Cardiologists, Neurologists and Nerosurgeons he was finally diagnosed with epilepsy.
But they could not identify where in the brain it was caused or what caused it.  We had two choices:  Exploratory Surgery in the brain or a small machine inplant above the heart.  All good and well.  But both procedures would cost us around 60 000 +. Who has that kind of money?  We certainly did not, not after paying all the already accumulated bills and Medical Aid was at this point also exhausted.  We decided to rather trust in God for a way out and a solution.  We went home and changed our lifestyle to better his life. Dad lost his job in the meanwhile, all leave was exhausted by this time and Mom's career followed suit as she had to drive him around and missed as much work. Grandma had to sell her house and we lost almost everything and moved to a new town after dad worked for a dish installation company for a meagre salary each week. He learned the ins and out and we used our last money at that stage to go for the dish installer training. These last three years we have been living from hand to mouth, getting a few instalations a month as an outside contract installer for a company, we even have to borrow a car each time. We want to open our own shop/installation business, obviously not in the same town, we have a lot of experience in this trade even Mom and Grandma does day to day hard labour with Dad, Employment is hard to get. At least there was a silver lining around the dark cloud, unplanned but very welcome after 11 years of marriage Mom and Dad was blessed with a little Boy about 5 months ago.
This campaign is important to us, because we want to have a better life for our child and give him the opportunities he deserve and leave him a future when he is grown up. If work is hard to get now, how will it be when he is grown up? The magnitude of your contribution will help a family to become financially and emotionally independent and built a better life and future.
Don't worry about the driving and working on  ladders etc. the epilepsie is under control for now and hopefully soon our lives with the help of your contributions.

What We Need

We need 50 000 to open our own business, then we can get installations directly from the satelite and dish company's and be paid by them.
The money will be for a vehicle - Bakkie or Panel wagon, stock or if you prefer merchandise ie: Dish kits. cable, screws, cable clips, cable ties etc. and to refurbish the shop ie: Counter, Laptop or PC and internet.
If we don't reach our goal, the funds will still go to the installations ie: Our own vehicle will go a long way to make it easier to do our work.

The Impact

After successfully building the bussiness we can help people in similar situatuions and create jobs along the way. 

Risks & Challenges

All our research is done  and points to a steadfast bussiness and income and growth.
The risk is minimal but there still is some risk in any business. We will overcome this with hard work, quality services and products. To stand out above the rest will of course guarantee more work and trust in us from the Satellite and Dish company's.
We are qualified and professional in this trade.  

Other Ways You Can Help

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Go Fund Me

Allison Kuhlman Scholarship
To Contribute: GoFundMe Campaign - Allison Kuhlman Scolarship

The support Allison's scholarship has received has been tremendous and very heart-warming for
the Kuhlman family! As of right now, the goal for the 1st year of the scholarship has far been surpassed! Keep up the fantastic support and thank you for your generosity!!

On Saturday, March 14, God called his servant Allison Kuhlman home.  She is the 19 year old daughter of Greg and Amy,  and sister to Nick.  Allison developed complications after having her wisdom teeth removed and was rushed to Blanchard Valley Regional Hospital.  Through the testing that was performed while she was in the ICU, it was discovered that her ammonia level was at a toxic level and sadly that did irreparable damage to her brain and organs.  Allison was a kind and generous person who loved caring for children.  She was active at her church, Findlay First Presbyterian, as a member of the Crib Room Staff, working in the nursery caring for the children of the congregation.  She attended the early childhood program at Millstream Career Center and graduated from Findlay High School in May 2014. Much of her free time was devoted to caring for and babysitting children. She was currently attending Owens Community College pursuing a degree in early childhood education.We would like to honor Allison by creating a scholarship that would be awarded to a Millstream Career Center student pursing a degree in early childhood education. 

Kickstarter

Emily Books: Bigger, Better, Bookier
To Contribute: Kickstarter Campaign - Emily books

Help the first feminist publishing project of its kind grow as a community, improve as a website, and support more authors!

About this project •

WHO WE ARE: Emily Books is a project that publishes, publicizes, and celebrates the best work of transgressive writers of the past, present and future. We pick one book a month to send to subscribers, and for now we only sell DRM-free ebooks. We are passionate about the writing of women, trans people, and queer people, and we seek out works that challenge genre distinctions, especially the distinction between memoir and fiction. Our books are funny, challenging, and provocative. They make no apologies for themselves, and at their finest, they make often-ignored or misunderstood subjectivities and points of view feel both relatable and utterly unique.

• PRESS!: Emily Books "cut[s] though the cascade of stories, tweets, links and other media that flow across our screens every day, and serve[s] up something reliably good," according to the NYT's Jenna Wortham. We also enable readers to "say fuck you to Amazon but also stay connected to an actual lit scene while still getting to read on your iPad." (Brooklyn Magazine). And Autostraddle points out that we "promote books that big publishing houses and the rest of the world might ignore."

• WHAT WE'VE DONE: For more than three years now, we (Ruth Curry and Emily Gould) have been running Emily Books by the seat of our pants, growing at a slow but steady pace and giving as much time to the business as we can while working on other projects and jobs that sustain us, as individuals, financially. We have succeeded in bringing the books we love to a wider audience, and in becoming a notable platform for emerging authors and neglected authors from the past. We brought Heather Lewis's out of print masterpiece Notice back to life as an ebook, publishing a definitive edition with new material from the author's literary executor. We have been on the forefront of both literary rediscoveries -- authors like Ellen Willis and Barbara Comyns -- and of world-rocking debuts of authors like Samantha Irby and Nell Zink. We want to continue to be a rule-breaking, playing-field-leveling force for change and for fun in what can sometimes be a stodgy, hidebound industry. But in order to serve readers, meaningfully challenge competitors, and create a sustainable business, we need better infrastructure.

• OUR GOAL: Right now, all our website is capable of doing is selling books and subscriptions. And that's important -- finding, choosing and delivering thoughtfully selected books will always be the foundation of our business. But we have a vision of a website that will actually be a place for the community that's emerged around our books to gather and connect. We assign and edit essays and interviews about our books and their authors and in the past we've experimented with distributing these via Tumblr and via iOS app, but we want a place where they can live alongside the books we sell, where they belong. We also want our website to be capable of supporting our eventual goal of becoming a publisher of original books, and of serving our readers by eventually supporting more reading formats.

• OUR PLAN: We've decided to partner with Rumors, Andy Pressman's design firm, to create the Emilybooks.com of our dreams that we've just described. We're impressed with their work on the Verso and Melville House websites and we want to compete in the same league as those guys. With these advancements, our hope is that we'll attract more readers and subscribers and be able to grow, to reach more readers, to materially support the careers of the writers we love, and to make sure Emily Books lives long into the future.

• BUDGET: We know $40,000 is a lot of money, and here's how it will be allocated: $30,000 goes to Rumors, approximately 2.5K goes to hire someone to help us with bookkeeping (currently the hardest part of Ruth's job, and something she needs to replace with editing books), and approximately 2.5K goes to cover Kickstarter and processing fees. The rest goes back to the writers whose work you'll be enjoying when you read the books we're offering as rewards.

  • THE FUTURE!: At the same time that we're launching this Kickstarter, we're announcing a plan to partner with nonprofit indie publisher Coffee House Press to create an imprint for original books -- meaning, brand new books that Emily and Ruth acquire and edit! Beginning with the Spring 2016 publication of Jade Sharma’s debut novel, Problems, Coffee House Press will publish two new Emily Books titles each year, in both print and electronic formats. This is incredibly thrilling for us, but in order to have the time and mental energy to grow in this way, we're counting on being able to have a website that runs smoothly all the time and help with bookkeeping, so that we can focus on finding and editing the next generation of Emily Books!

- Risks and challenges
Because we aren't offering much as rewards that we don't already provide to our customers, we feel that risks are minimal. We might encounter setbacks in terms of completion of the new website in the timeframe we're aiming for, but other than that, we are confident and excited about sharing Emily Books with more people.