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Description
The project is intended for mothers on maternity leave, whose income often consists only of parental allowance. The aim is to create an opportunity to use their own abilities and come up with something innovative, creative with the potential of entrepreneurship and with regard to their primary role as a mother. The central activities are practical workshops that will introduce them to the reality of the business sector and introduce them to handmade creation, business and sales in practice. A series of interviews with successful active mothers in regional weekly magazines with an impact on the whole of eastern Slovakia will also be prepared. The project is being implemented in the Prešov region and plans to involve 50 mothers on maternity leave or parental allowance.
Summary of project results
Young women on maternity leave are both talented and active, but they often need inspiration or guidance from more experienced women to be able to start their own businesses. Mothers often struggle with a lack of opportunities (especially in Eastern Slovakia), but also with a limited amount of time to work full-time while taking care of their baby. The objective of the project "Two Hands of Moms" was to create new business plans, ideas, and innovations of moms from Eastern Slovakia. Together with experts from the world of handmade they go through a training process and various workshops in order to learn entrepreneurial skills, to increase their self-confidence and to show the potential of handmade creation for business through successful examples from practice. Another goal was to create a basis for the creation of a platform that would connect moms with professionals from the world of handmade. The project consisted of 10 practical workshops which were complemented with the theory that the participants need to start their business. The created platform involved the participants and all the participating experts as well. A total of 127 people were involved in the project. The project helped to build a rather large community of active, talented women who are disadvantaged on the labour market, and in the process, we got to significantly popularize handmade crafts as a tool for entrepreneurship. So far, no similar activity targeting this vulnerable group has been implemented in this form in Eastern Slovakia.