(English) A decent job! Here are the first results of the PROFOR project.

[:en]Building a system for respectable work is one of the goals of the PROFOR project – PROGRAM FOR THE STRENGTHENING COMMUNION INCLUSIVE BUSINESSES. The aims of the projects are to start-up and support the entrepreneurship of people that are in socio-economic difficulties.

The results are already clear. After the training phase, the receiving of the funds and the support of consultants and coaches for the start-up phase, six out of eight businesses are in business and one is about to start in the healthcare sector.
The Frutos da Terra project in Rio de Janeiro, which concerns the production of frozen vegetables (cultivation, harvesting and processing), continues to grow. Machinery was purchased with start-up capital and the building has been restructured and reorganized. In addition, training courses have been developed to employ local women in the preparation of the vegetables.
The project also received several awards. Waldemar proposed this idea for the improvement of the rural community and for the benefit and direct support of 15 farmers. It has furthermore been proposed for a partnership with a young member of the community in which the company resides.
The freezing-related agriculture project also had set up exchanges with the university up to an agreement that allows students to use the farm as a social lab.

Campo Fértil in Pernambuco is a cooperative that produces organic vegetables. Thanks to the start-up capital obtained with the project, a truck was purchased that improved production and therefore increased income (profitability went from R $ 6,000 (1,800 Euros) to R $ 18,000 (5,365 Euros)).
Much of this capital was used for the construction of a processing plant. The number of direct jobs created in this process is 8 units, and the number of families involved has increased from 11 to 20. The cooperative is structuring and organizing more and more, and the entrepreneur has decided to open up to a new market: the sale to private people who live nearby, with a delivery at home service.

Also the manager of Premosam, a company that builds prefabricated buildings in Pernambuco is finding confidence and is changing attitude towards his business, thanks to the courses that the project’s coaches proposed. With the start-up capital, new equipment was purchased in order to respond better to the demands. The company’s consolidation has also allowed the entrepreneur to welcome his brother who was unemployed. Once again solidarity multiplies, starting in a form and assuming several others.[:]