The winner of the "Do Your Own" contest opened a pizzeria in a village in Cherkasy region

The winner of the business idea competition "Do your own" Natalia Mykhailenko opened a pizzeria in the village of Ivangorod, Cherkasy region, reports UNN.

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It should be noted that the woman was one of almost 700 participants who applied for the business idea competition from the MHP-Community Charitable Foundation. And she became its winner. She received UAH 100 thousand to develop her business. She used the money to buy equipment and open a pizzeria.

"It's nice when small villages develop. The Do Your Own projects are an example of this. Almost all the winners are people from small communities, they live there and strive to improve them: some revive something forgotten, others multiply new, modern things. But all of them have one thing in common: the desire to make their community better, to develop it. These people bring prosperity to the place where they live, and do not go looking for it elsewhere. That is why the MHP for Communities Charitable Foundation supports such initiative people and lets them know that they are not alone in their country. There are those who will always lend a reliable shoulder. Together we do important things," says Tatiana Polishchuk, a representative of MHP-Community.

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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 2023. 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-Gromada is a Ukrainian charitable foundation that started its operations 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.