"Do your own thing": an immigrant from Donetsk region started a mushroom farm in Cherkasy region
Kyiv • UNN
Yuriy Dushenko, an IDP from Donetsk Oblast, won a business idea competition and opened a mushroom farm in Cherkasy Oblast, receiving grant funding.
Yuriy Dushenko, an immigrant from Lyman, Donetsk region, won the "Do Your Own" business idea competition and started a mushroom farm in Cherkasy region, UNN reports .
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When the full-scale invasion began, Yurii left his home and moved to Zvenyhorodka, Cherkasy region. There he applied for grants and won one.
"Thanks to the funding we received, we were able to buy the equipment we needed in the minimum quantity to launch at least a small production and grow mushrooms," says Yuriy.
According to him, he has improved the cultivation technology, which allowed him to harvest three tons of mushrooms from one chamber in three months.
The "Do Your Own" business idea competition has been held for 5 years in a row. This year, the total grant budget is UAH 10 million. It is planned to support the businesses of 80 entrepreneurs.
"We would like to pay special attention to supporting the businesses of veterans, their families, and families who lost loved ones in the war," says Tatiana Volochai, director of the MHP for Community Foundation.
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"MHP-Hromadas is a Ukrainian charitable foundation that started its operations in 2015. Its main mission is the comprehensive 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.