A man started a social enterprise on the basis of a rehabilitation center in Lviv Oblast.
Mykola Golovko is an entrepreneur, the father of many children, before the start of the full-scale war, he lived and worked in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.
He started the business together with his wife in 2004. In Pokrovsk, the enterprise was engaged in the production of paving stones, fences, grates and everything else from concrete and metal.
By 2014, the business was actively developing. Despite the decrease in the number of orders with the beginning of ATO, and later OOS, the man remained in Donetsk region and continued to work until the full-scale invasion.
“I was at the last convocation of the public council. He took an active part in all kinds of events. It was on the 24th that we planned to move. Already in the morning, after the Russian missiles had arrived, I took out an iron and started ironing the flag. He was preparing for a rally in support of Ukraine. And then one person, let’s say, changed everything in my head. He was a Ukrainian-speaking person. And she said to me: “Do you see, Mykola, what the people of Bandera have done?” I called my wife, I said, collect the children, things, documents – we’re going,” the entrepreneur recalls.
Mykola and his family lived in Transcarpathia for half a year. Later they moved to Lviv Oblast. The company also managed to move from Pokrovsk to Drohobychchyna. Lviv OVA helped financially in this.
“Mykola Golovko and his wife received assistance as a relocated business from the regional military administration – 100,000 hryvnias each,” says Orest Hryniv, deputy director of the economic policy department of the Lviv OVA.
Mykola started a social enterprise on the basis of the rehabilitation center “Nazaret”. Among its employees are people recovering at the center. In addition, part of the profit will be transferred to the needs of the community.
“I decided that people who are in the center have some difficulties, they are being rehabilitated there, and it will be a cool story if these people make something useful, for example, for people with disabilities. And I bought molds for tactile tiles,” explains Mykola.
We will remind you that Lviv Oblast is the first region in Ukraine that introduced the Business Support Program during martial law. It provides for the provision of irreversible financial assistance to the relocated business.
An important condition of the program is the re-registration of the business in the territory of the Lviv region.
“Entrepreneurs are moving their production facilities here, as well as re-registering their businesses. This makes it possible to pay taxes to the local budgets of our region. More than 60 enterprises have already received assistance within the framework of the program from Lviv OVA. A business that wants to use this program should contact the Department of Economic Policy of the Lviv Regional Government, fill out an application and submit it. The story of Mykola Golovka gives hope and confidence that there is a tomorrow in Ukraine, and with such strong people it will definitely be a good one,” said the head of Lviv OVA Maksym Kozytskyi.
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