"Do Your Business": a military wife realized her family's dream by opening a greenery business

Iryna and Ihor Huky won the business idea competition "Do Your Business" and built a greenhouse. There, the couple grows a variety of greens and offers them to local residents, markets, shops, and local cafes, UNN reports.

Details

The project was implemented in the village of Myrne, Kyiv region, with the support of Starynska Poultry Farm and the MHP-Hromada Charitable Foundation.

Interestingly, Ihor planned to build a greenhouse himself. However, after a while, the man defended Ukraine. So in October 2023, Iryna realized their dream on her own. Now Ihor is at home, undergoing rehabilitation and helping his wife with the housework.

It should be noted that Do Your Business is a business idea competition aimed at supporting micro-entrepreneurship in villages and small towns to strengthen Ukraine's economy. In 2023, the MHP-Hromada Charitable Foundation, which organizes the competition, supported 80 business projects worth over UAH 7.4 million.

Help

MHP-Hromada is a Ukrainian charitable foundation that started its operations in 2015. Its main mission is the comprehensive development of communities. The geography of its operations 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.