Success Stories

Thriving businesses work well not only in big cities. If you have a passion and an entrepreneurial spirit, you can live away from the country’s capital, but you can also run a business with great skill. Just love to have for what you do and especially the certainty that you will succeed.

Alina, together with their husband and three children, live in the village of Bilicenii Vechi, Sângerei district.

For some 10 years now, watermelons and yellow melons have been growing without chemicals, or as they are still popular with us, harbours and snow.

And because they were not able to sell the harvest in full – on a practical basis, they started to prepare from non-marketed, canned production. The most popular are acacia and watermelon jam.

Original idea, it brought them the success and gratitude of the buyers – because they were preserved tastes prepared from vegetables and fruits without additions, with the natural taste and beautiful taste of childhood, which also preserves their nutritional properties.

In the battle of industrialisation and lack of time, women are no longer patient in ‘witching’ supplies for the cold period of the year. The most attractive solution is the markers, which all have a smaller taste – the hint of home DE – and what Alina Daraban proposed, which had grown more with her grandmother, leaving her mother for work abroad, was precisely the irreplaceable taste. From his grandmother, who was unaware of the artificial preservatives, he inherited the passion of cooking.

Over time, he also had to learn things from an area he did not know – entrepreneurship, business plans, income and expenditure.

It has expanded the production of preserves, with other sort of jams, juices and guilloches, equally appreciated and sought after.

Meanwhile, she participated in the EU-funded ODIMM Business Women Project, through which she won a grant to bring these and other ideas to life. With RON 160 thousand, it procured the necessary equipment.

The plans are now directed towards the external market in order to be able to prepare according to traditional methods and more natural production, preserved with an excellent taste and at a moderate price – between RON 30 and RON 50.

It intends to dry the melons more dry, especially for seeds, which have great health benefits, is another idea that is waiting to materialise, to the deluge of potential consumers.

And yet another detail, not to be neglected, for those who always complain about miss, for some complicated events in their lives.

Alina Daraban and her husband have disabling health problems, but with the help of their children, they have managed this wonderful and home-tasting business without invoking their special situation. They simply enjoy everything they manage to do together and all the opportunities life offers.