Help Michelle Andrews rebulid

Hello,

My name is Michelle Andrews and many of you may know me from the Art Gallery in the Whitsunday shopping center, I've never had to reach out and ask for help before but I now find myself in the most devastating of situations.

On Sunday the 3rd of April a massive fire tore through the Whitsunday Shopping center here in Cannonvale, destroying many businesses including the Art Whitsunday Gallery where I worked.

I volunteered my time for free 5 days a week to keep the gallery open and in exchange I was allowed to run my archive printing lab, photographic restoration and editing business from there in lieu of any payment.

The entire building has been utterly destroyed and my insurance unfortunately didn't cover me, likewise Art Whitsundays insurance didn't cover me either so I've just lost everything.

I now have no way to replace any of my equipment and no way to repay the loan I had to take out last November to replace my older wide format archive printer which broke and was unrepairable so I just replaced it with a new model which is now lost forever in the fire which has torn the heart out of our entire community.

I've no right to ask for your help as I'm sure there are others worse off than me right now but my first concern right now is repaying back the loan money I borrowed as the people I borrowed it from are doing it tough too and I should never have asked for their financial help in the first place, I feel so guilty for making their life more difficult. Perhaps once I've repayed them I can start trying to pick up the pieces of my business and make it great once again.

I'm so used to being the one who looks after others it feels quite embarrassing to be in a position where I have to ask for help but I have no other place to go for help right now...... no one expects such a run of bad luck in such a very short time.

Any help, no matter how small you can provide will be most humbly appreciated.