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Milutin lives in Mokra Gora with his four-member family-a wife and two daughters. Milutin is the only one employed in the family household and his salary is the only source of income. Family Jojic lives in a one-floor family house in Mokra Gora. Milutin thought the house was worth further investment and adaptation due to good location in the area which has started and developed rural tourism... more


One of the examples of successful entrepreneurship and the persistence of the entrepreneurship spirit is the example of Budimir Savic, an IDP from Pristina.  Budimir and his family live in Uzice where he decided to start his own business... more


How to turn a hobby into a small business is a successful story of Danko Smiljanic from Uzice. Danko, who was unemployed for a long time, was making toys and other objects of wood which was bringing him some profit mainly through his friends and acquaintances who were familiar with his work... more


After losing her job and regular income Vesna decided to start her own business – shoelace production. When the German humanitarian organization HELP, in November 2005, started its project in Pirot, she applied for the in-kind grant... more


Ljubisa is a pensioner and lives with his wife in Uzice. They own a village house in Mokra Gora which they wanted to renovate since they wanted to be included in the tourist offer of that region. The finances they had were insufficient for a complete house renovation so they were forced to look for alternative solution which would help them finish the rest of the work... more


Zoran Dencic is a civil engineer from Pirot, who lost his job after a long standing employment in a construction company. However, that did not discourage him. His inclination towards the art, supported with education and experience, Zoran directed to wood processing and engraving... more


Supporting the development potential of Mokra Gora and the improvement of rural tourism encouraged many residents of that region to participate actively in the improvement of the tourist offer... more


Having found out about in-kind grant donation to small entrepreneurs of HELP organization, Miroslav Nikolic from Pirot, being unemployed, decided to make a difference in his life and in the life of his family. Together with his wife, also registered as unemployed, he decided to start his own small business... more


After the closure of the company she worked for, Ljiljana, believing in her own capabilities, decided to start her own business. She found the inspiration in the old craft she had learnt from her father – production of leather products : shoes, “opanak” - type of peasant shoes, belts... more


Designing products of folk arts and crafts for Karolina meant not only preserving tradition and old crafts but also a job which secures income for her and her family. What seemed to be an interesting hobby Karolina turned into small business... more


Having worked for 18 years in a shoe factory “Kostana” Sladjan Stefanovic decided to start his own business. In April 2005 he registered his business and started offering services of sewing shoes for other producers... more


Aleksandar came to an interesting business idea of rope production thanks to his father’s work experience in the sales where rope was the most wanted article. The fact that this type of production was not present on the market gave Aleksandar a chance for a better future... more


Jelena Bogdanovic Peric is 30 years old and lives with her familiy in Aleksinac. She decided to become a nursery-governess and 9 years ago successfully finished the Pedagogy College in Aleksinac. Upon finishing 1 year of her traineeship in the Institution for pre-school training and education “Lane” and work with children, she had to spend next 5 – 6 years working in commercial companies in Aleksinac. ... more


One of them, Suzana Djokic, a mother of two underage girls, completed medical school but she couldn't find a job in her profession. A ten-year struggle to secure bare existence made Suzana qualify for another occupation-a hairdresser... more


Miroslava Ðakovic is a refugee from Virovitica , Croatia . She is a 32-year-old single parent living with two children and her parents in a small rented house in a village Golubinci near Stara Pazova. In May 2004 she lost her job in the company Milex and their household incomes decreased to 22.5 Euro per member... more


Vesna Jovanovic, born in 1963, from Kraljevo is a mother of three underage children. At the beginning of 2004 she loses her job as well as her monthly income. A difficult financial situation in which she found herself in, had the effect on creating the idea for starting her own business but the lack of financial means prevented her from realization of that idea... more


Bojan Dabižljevic was born in 1982 in Pec, Kosovo. He left his birthplace in 1999 , and he found accommodation in the collective center Ratko Mitrovic in Požega, where he lives with his six-member family in a 24m2 room... more

Djordje Stamenkovic lives in the suburb of Kragujevac with his wife, one-year old child and three members of his family.Djordje applied for the HELP program and received a machine for car tires dismantling. He started working diligently and after 2,5 months he registered his business... more


Mirjana Ilic lives in a village near Kragujevac with her husband and two children.Both Mirjana and her husband were registered at the labour market as unemployed. The only income was her husband's occasional season work in the amount of 70 euro... more


One of the HELP's beneficicary, Jelena Vojinovic from Kraljevo, lives with her mother and sister in a rented house and the only income in the family is her mother's salary of 70 euro. Jelena had a plan to open a beauty parlour but due to the lack of finances she couldn't start her activity... more