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Help me to start my own business Campaign

My name is Jaco Pieterse and I am an 45 year old unemployed individual for more than 12 months. I have started a small business venture called NC Tropical Aquatics whilst I was employed by my previous employer funding all purchases from my salary. It was a small setup where we would only sell tropical fish and accessories to local customers. Being unemployed and not able to continue funding the venture out of my own has forced me to seek other means raising the required funding in order to get my premises renovated to support a big pet store and buy the necessary stock to stock it fully. I am unable to find work and my passion is to have my own business one day which my sons can take over from although they will be part of the business as well. My wife is terminally ill and we have a autistics son 13 years of age whom both require dire funding as well but theirs is a different one than to what I wish to achieve. For me finding a suitable job in order to cover all our daily and living expenses is out of the question thus my only option is to raise funding and grow my business. For this I need funding that I cannot obtain from our government or from other companies without meeting certain criteria. My business is registered although I am not selling anything at the moment and I wish to change that. I do have all the equipment needed to continue but without a little renovating and stock I cannot operate fully. All donations and funds will be paid directly into the business account for record keeping and all expenses will reflect on statements on a daily and monthly basis. I am an experienced retail manager with more than 25 years experience in business operations and therefor capable of operating my own business. Once I am able to open doors I will be involving our community and donating back to local charities that cater for all animals. Your donations and funds will help me to achieve my dream and also be put back into our communities.

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Fundraising target

R 800 000.00

Donations to date

R 0.00

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