He has attended all of our seminars and business club meetings. In addition we have provided many hours of individual business consulting with him.
In March 2004 he approached us for a small loan to help develop his business. We loaned him about 2000 USD to buy a bigger machine. Today his business has greatly developed. Christian has given work to several other men, bought more equipment and a truck. Among his clients is a big building construction companies, “Arteks Engineering” and the Nuclear Plant “Kozloduj”, the biggest in Bulgaria.
“Integra not only helped my business, but completely transformed my perspective on life”, he says.
Nelly, is a very kind and talented lady who attended Integra’s MED business course for women at risk. She and her daughter were very good -looking intelligent women but they
were very depressed and hopeless. Twelve years ago they were very happy and rich family, mother, father and a daughter. Nelly was one of the most famous designers in Bulgaria. She was on the first page in every fashion magazine, and almost every month on the TV…. Her life was like a story of a Princess from a fairy tale. Unfortunately, her husband left her and ran away with a model and with all the money from the family business. She was shocked and felt really desperate, so she stopped working. She lost everything and when she came in our office she told us that she was washing dishes in a restaurant in Sofia. She had lost her faith and she didn’t believe that anything in her life could ever be changed for the better.We invited her to our training course for “ Small Business Dynamics”. At the end of the week she and her daughter told us that this course was the one of the best times of their life. They started writing a business plan and applied for a loan to start a workshop for repairing clothes and providing tailoring and sewing services. One of the many hardships that they experienced was the financial discipline that they had to learn. After we gave her the loan, she rented a space and bought sewing machines and started working. We have done much consulting with her and her daughter. We managed to monitor the pay off of the loan from Integra as well as their overall financial situation.
At present she has two women working for her. She created job opportunities for them and her small business develops successfully. She is planning on opening a second workshop in near future.
