Vasyl Pavuk from the village of Shybalyn, Ternopil region, scaled up his berry business by winning the Do Your Own business idea competition, UNN reports .
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Vasyl grows blueberries for sale. This year, the entrepreneur decided to take part in the Do Your Own business idea competition and his project won. He received funding in the amount of UAH 97 thousand 900 from the MHP-Hromada charitable foundation.
With these funds, Vasyl purchased a shock freezer and a refrigerator.
"This will allow us to keep the price of berries up, as we are already confident that the harvest will not be lost," says the entrepreneur. At his own expense, he purchased another cold storage facility to store his produce. Currently, he has 15 acres under cultivation, but he plans to expand the area.
Recall
At the end of May, the organizers of the "Do Your Own" business idea competition for entrepreneurs in small towns and villages announced the winners of the 2023 edition. This year, the MHP-Hromada Charitable Foundation, which organized the competition, supported 80 business projects totaling over UAH 7.4 million. A total of 615 applications were received from small entrepreneurs across the country. In particular, most business ideas were submitted in Kyiv (22%), Cherkasy (12%), Dnipro (11%), Vinnytsia (9%), and Lviv (9%) regions. The main criteria for selecting the winners were project innovation, economic component, creation of new jobs, social significance, and involvement of IDPs in business or work. Both existing businesses that are expanding or relocating and entrepreneurs who have a business idea and are just looking for funding to implement it received grant support.
Reference MHP-Gromada is a Ukrainian charitable foundation that started its operations in 2015. Its main mission is the integrated development of communities. The geography of its activities includes 12 regions of Ukraine: more than 700 towns and villages. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Foundation has been systematically supporting people in the regions of hostilities, Ukrainian defenders and rescuers, communities, hospitals and maternity homes, charitable institutions that care for orphans and the elderly, as well as people who have lost their homes and livelihoods due to the war.