Success Stories

He had a stable job and a normal life until a tragedy gave him everything over his head. Elena Vetrici from Chirileni village, Ungheni district she faced the challenge of raising her children alone. It has never been thought that agriculture will restore both its financial equilibrium and its soul. Woman established a small goji plantation. fruit with many beneficial properties for health. Furthermore, the goji shrubs are considered to be resilient to climate change, which facilitates the work of the farmer. Subsequently, the woman planted six hectares of such fruit shrubs, and after studying this area more intensively, she also set up a hectare of nursery where she obtained a new variety of trees.

The small business has turned into a real passion for Elena Vetrici. And when you like it, it is said that you do not even feel that you are working, and success comes from you. This is how two years ago, in 2018 women entrepreneurs have also built a modern dryer with European money. More specifically, he obtained a special machinery for the processing and drying of goji pumpkins. The purchase was made possible thanks to the grant through PARE 1 + 1 programmemanaged by ODIMM.

The grant was a chance to grow a business, but also a motivation that brought back home one of the seven children of the woman at work abroad. Now he runs the business together.

The company also owns the 50 beehives pollinating goji plantations. In this way, women entrepreneurs practice and beekeepingand the combination of these two activities has given rise to a new idea. Elena aimed to produce a new product – energy batons from goji and honey.

For this achievement, but also for other ideas, the woman sought support through ODIMM programmes. However, the biggest achievement of Elena Vetrici it would be like to see all her children permanently at home, because she says she also grows businesses in Moldova.

The “PARE 1 + 1” Economic Discharge Programme operates under the “1 + 1” rule – each leu invested from the candidate’s remittances is replaced by a grant leu from the programme. Grant beneficiaries may be citizens of the Republic of Moldova working abroad and their first-degree relatives. The programme is financed from the state budget and co-financed by European Union funds.

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