The Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Security, Carla Bacigalupo, delivered certificates and seed capital worth G. 129,000,000 to 45 entrepreneurs from Carapeguá. The activity was within the framework of the closing ceremony of the program ‘Strengthening business capacities and competitiveness for microenterprises in the department of Paraguarí’.
The aforementioned program is developed through an alliance between the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MTESS) and the CIRD Foundation for the implementation of the project ‘Training in the area of Supermarket and Strengthening of MSMEs and Sinafocal to support the formal labor market, as well as the visibility of MSMEs’.
‘We delivered capital goods for a total value of 129,000,000 gs, consisting of machinery and tools of different trades, such as sewing, hairdressing, mechanics, gastronomy, among others, to 42 microentrepreneurs, who received training in business management tools, finance, marketing, productive processes, in addition to starting their entry into the formal sector, with the obtaining of their RUC’, commented the minister, Carla Bacigalupo after finishing the act.
The implementation of the program also had the support of the Carapegueña Association of Educators, from the national direction of Entrepreneurship of the Vice Ministry of MSME, from Global Entrepreneurship Network - GEN Paraguay and from the Entrepreneur Training Center CEE, dependent on the MTESS, which was in charge of developing with the beneficiaries a module of Branding and Digital Marketing.