Valle INN bets on entrepreneurs and reactivation - Cali - Colombia

Husbands Neyireth Almanya and Jair Efrén Ortega, residents of Cali, lost their jobs during the covid-19 pandemic. To generate new income for their family, they created a clothing company. However, the clothing that this couple makes stands out because they are colorful and have creative images printed on them.

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These entrepreneurs have done well and already generate four jobs. But they needed a boost and they signed up for the Valle INN fund, a strategy of the Government of Valle del Cauca to support the economic reactivation of the department.

Well Neyireth and her husband were some of the 350 beneficiary entrepreneurs from four communes of Cali and they received, completely free, a printer and a computer that will allow them to make and print the designs in a single day. This process took two days.

“This tabloid printer that they give me today will allow me to have much more performance and get more production because the normal printer generated much more work for me. As an entrepreneur, I invite you to believe in Valle INN, to believe in the Government’s projects and to reactivate economically”, said the entrepreneur.

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Valle INN is one of the successful programs of the departmental administration. For this reason, the Ministry of Finance highlighted it as a model of economic recovery. The fund will benefit 2,109 productive units with an investment of $18,732 million in 18 communes.

More than $40,000 million has been invested by the departmental administration in the economic reactivation of entrepreneurs and micro-entrepreneurs from Valle del Cauca during 2021 through the Valle INN fund. 15 calls were made and 7,023 companies benefited.

Governor Clara Luz Roldán pointed out: “Through our Valle INN initiative we are creating employment from the base, supporting small and medium entrepreneurs. We Valle del Cauca are reactivating together and we will not stop”.

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Valle INN has supported young people, Afro and indigenous, to pet businesses and barbers. It also supports businesses affected by unemployment.

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Government of Valle del Cauca supports entrepreneurs for reactivation - Cali - Colombia

Sandra Milena Adarve was happy with a binding machine to make more shoes and generate other jobs in the La Unión neighborhood, in the 16th commune of Cali.

The entrepreneur says that she will improve her production processes.

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José Mina smiled because he will be able to manufacture more beds for pets and employ more mothers who are heads of households.

They were the joys in the El Pueblo coliseum, where the governor Clara Luz Roldán delivered the first supplies that will reach 2,109 beneficiaries of the program INN Valley in 18 communes of Cali.

The Valle INN fund delivered machinery, equipment and tools to entrepreneurs from four communes (13, 14, 16 and 21, ), with some 18,000 million pesos. “I have to thank the planning committees of each of the communes because from the Government of the Valley we promised to execute some resources in each of the communes of Cali and it was the committees that prioritized some resources for economic development and reactivation. Here we are fulfilling them, in Cali we are going to support more than 2,000 entrepreneurial projects,” said Governor Roldán.

Yesterday’s session was held in communes 13, 14, 16 and 21, in which 350 enterprises are the beneficiaries.

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A good part of these 350 enterprises do not have a Mercantile Registry of the Chamber of Commerce. The Governor and the secretary of Economic Development of the district administration, Pedro Bravo, explained that this requirement is not necessary to compete and obtain support from Valle INN.

“Many entrepreneurs are informal, that with this project, plus the advice of the Secretariat, they will go to the formal economy,” said Bravo.

In fact, the Cali Chamber of Commerce, which issues commercial registration records, was one of the jurors.

Alex Quebrada cried when he remembered people who lost their businesses under the ‘drop by drop’.

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In the department, the Valle INN program has invested 55,000 million pesos.

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Promotion of the Government of the Valley and the Mayor's Office of Palmira to 171 entrepreneurs - Cali - Colombia

Supplies, tools and raw materials, for 1,500 million pesos, were received by 171 entrepreneurs from Palmira by the Valle INN Municipios fund and the Palmira Municipal Mayor’s Office.

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The aid is part of the economic reactivation strategy of the departmental administration of Valle del Cauca.

“Every day one sees that there is ingenuity, young people with beautiful ideas and the only thing they need is for us to give them a push. For this reason, this year we are going to continue with our call as well as next year, it is the time in which the greatest support we need is for our entrepreneurs”affirmed the governor of Valle del Cauca, Clara Luz Roldán.

Of the 1,500 million pesos, the Departmental Government contributed 50 percent and the Mayor’s Office of Palmira the other 50 percent.

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Palmira is the municipality that most resources contributed as counterpart in these types of calls.

“We are supporting nascent ventures but also others that are consolidated in the generation of employment, minimarkets, beauty salons and restaurants, with this project the economy of Palmira is reborn,” said the Secretary of Economic Development and Competitiveness of Valle del Cauca, Pedro Andrés Bravo.

The entrepreneur María Cristina Hernández, who received a four-wire filleting machine, two shears and a presser foot, said that she will be able to grow her children’s clothing business to generate employment in Palmira.

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