The winner of the "Do It Yourself" contest scaled up the business of producing fast and healthy lunches

Mykola Malchenko, the winner of the "Do Your Own" contest from Dnipro, has scaled up his business of producing fast and healthy lunches. This is reported by the MHP-Gromada Charitable Foundation, UNN reports.

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Malchenko used the grant money to buy a refrigerator, a barbecue, a grill, and a rice cooker. The entrepreneur prepares healthy lunches using specially designed exclusive equipment that allows fresh filling to be "sealed" in 2 hearty flatbreads.

"Locals have already appreciated the lunchburgers (as Mykola calls his miracle snacks) for: the ability to create your own personal recipe (choose sauce, salad, meat, and other ingredients), ease of use (the filling does not fall out and the sauce does not leak), and speed of preparation," MHP-Community said.

Malchenko has no plans to stop there. The author of the project plans to create a network of establishments and launch a franchise in Ukrainian cities.

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Recap

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 more than UAH 7.4 million. A total of 615 applications were received from small entrepreneurs from all over 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.

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MHP-Community is a Ukrainian charitable foundation that was launched in 2015. Its main mission is comprehensive community development. 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 war zone, 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.