The MHP-Community Charitable Foundation supports media projects in the "Do Your Business" business idea competition. They are convinced that local information resources should become an inspiring example of public leadership, UNN reports.
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For example, in Vinnytsia region, MHP-Hromada supported the Zhmerynka Online Children's Television Studio.
"From now on, the active youth of the Zhmerynka community will use the new equipment to shoot stories about prominent fellow countrymen, the history of their native land, national traditions, and interesting facts about architecture and monuments. Our contribution to this project amounted to UAH 90,000," the charity foundation said.
In Cherkasy region, the local broadcaster of Korsun and its neighboring communities, Radio "On the Wave of Korsun," received a grant of UAH 100,000 from MHP-Hromada.
"More than 50 thousand listeners will now have uninterrupted access to reliable information about events in the community and Ukraine, even during blackouts. And the goal is to increase the amount of content that will become a tool to counter Russian propaganda," the statement said.
And the Lubenshchyna newspaper (Poltava region), thanks to the support of the charitable foundation, will launch a series of innovations: develop a website, update social networks, release an author's calendar, create an image photo zone, and hold a presentation of the publication for partners and potential readers. He will even organize an educational flash mob.
"Do Your Business" is a business idea competition for entrepreneurs in small towns and villages. Since 2020, the winners and participants of the competition have created dozens of new businesses in the agricultural sector, light and food industries, green tourism, etc. In 2022, the competition supported 74 microbusinesses worth UAH 6 million, and this year - 80 microbusinesses worth UAH 7.4 million. In addition, 10 Ukrainian veterans and their families won the #Worth "Do Your Business" competition, organized by MHP-Community Foundation in cooperation with the Ukrainian Veterans Fund of the Ministry of Veterans, and received from UAH 500 thousand to 1.5 million to start and develop their own agricultural business. The total budget of the competition amounted to UAH 6 million.
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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.