Start a new life and open your own small business to immigrants and former ATU participants help in Bakhmut. The Gorlovka employment center moved here not only tries to find suitable work for people, but teaches the basics of entrepreneurial activity. However, to open your own business, you will have to overcome many difficulties.
A former housewife and ATU participant, and today just a large mother of Alexander decided to start her business in her native city - Bakhmut. As a serviceman in a medical company of the National Guard of Ukraine, the girl worked in the kitchen and cooked food for the wounded soldiers. Having demobilized, I decided to open the first fast food restaurant. With the starting capital helped in the employment center, but it was not easy to get the necessary permits from the city officials.
"There was a great desire, but at first there was no money. Seeking. There was a goal. When there is a goal, there always come opportunities. Just do not stop. Search. At me four refusals were on a place of installation of a diner, simply did not resolve. First, hands are dropped, you think that nothing will turn out, you have to close, but then again choose a new place, I write applications, ask for permission. We went to the architect, and in the end we were given permission, although it was very difficult to achieve it, "says Alexander Balagura.
The snack works a month, but I already liked the local military and students. Today Alexandra is opening a second cafe and is working on creating her own network. And to work in the first diner I hired an immigrant from Lugansk.
But the migrant Anna Petrichenko creates her own brand of children's clothing. Together with assistants she sews everything: starting from slings for newborns, finishing with jackets and overalls for older children. Taking into account the development of trade relations with the European Union, it expects to enter European markets. True, the unstable exchange rate does not allow to form a competitive price.
"The exchange rate does not bore us, it moves, more often upwards than down, and all purchases and deliveries, unfortunately, depend on this. But I very much hope that the opening of borders will help us, that this will give a definite impetus, a kick, in a good sense of the word, for our enterprises, for small and medium enterprises. In order to go there - to them, "- says Anna Petrichenko.
In both cases, with starting capital, women were helped in the Gorlovka Employment Center. The organization moved to Bakhmut in the fall of 2014, but the name remained. Despite the Spartan conditions, local specialists still managed to employ hundreds of people.
"For three years we have employed about 300 people. More than 150 people sent vocational training. For public works, a person is 150-200 ", says the director of Gorlovka city employment center Viktor Dergai.
In addition, they created a "career center". Here everyone comes for new knowledge and skills. The center offers free seminars and trainings, thematic tests, the ability to record video resumes and other online services.
Source: Radio Liberty.