 According to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, over 1,700,000 people have lost their homes and have been internally displaced because of the conflict in the east of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Fahri has moved from Crimea to Dnipropetrovsk with his wife and their four children. Oksana has opened a business producing bags in Vinnytsia, together with two other girls from Donetsk. Donetsk had to move from Donetsk to Odessa. When these events began, we moved. When we moved, as you know, like in the corner, so that there were some prospects, some plans, no plans at all. We just took the suitcase and left. Yes, I have 2 kg of onions left. And when we moved here, I probably couldn't find a job for a year. We lived like a child, so to speak. It was the 3rd of March. We moved to Crimea on the 27th of February. And we left there on the 3rd of March. I mean, I and the children. I think we have to start and remind ourselves what these people went through. They went through extreme hardship, extremely difficult times. They literally lost overnight their homes, their jobs, got separated from family members. Denis, Fahri and Oksana with her friends are just a few of the several thousand conflict-affected people who have received support from the International Organization for Migration and its non-governmental partners to launch a business. Mom actually provides these conditions for the grants and it's good that it's all different. It doesn't depend on the desire. I mean, I want to sew bags or sell clothes. I'm sure she'll give you such help. Except for the financial issue. It's a serious moral factor that you're not alone with your problems. And it's very important, especially for people who start from scratch. I decided to start a cafe. I went to school, I made a business plan. Well, we've come to our main question. It's the budget. The rent, the connection, the phone. It's what we discussed with you. All the expenses that are met on your way will have to be invested in this budget. We give a certain motivation to people that life doesn't end there, that after losing something, we find something different. We consider our expenses and our income. After that, we'll present everything together and we'll find some underwater stones that can meet us. From the conversation with the coach, I was told that they were very doubtful, very afraid. They never worked for themselves. It was a very difficult choice for them. Nevertheless, as we see the results today, people have opened up. I think they've opened up quite successfully. The city is associated with some kind of rise. It's higher, higher, higher, higher. That's probably why I gave up. The cafe has been working for over a year, and their eastern cuisine has become famous in Nipropetrovsk. Because where among the first IDPs to receive IOM grants in Vinica? I was offered to buy a car. I called the girls and said, there is such an opportunity, let's do what we wanted. We feel the ease of the daily process we do. We like our business. No matter how much we came to work and how much we left, or we didn't leave at all, we have this feeling of euphoria. We get a lot of emotions from people who call us and say, I really like it, I want more. I really like it, thank you very much. You can say how you found yourself. No one has ever thought about it, to become a private entrepreneur. And it turns out that grant programs protect your business plan, give you equipment, and it's your development. You're not just sitting at home, you're doing something, you're selling handmade goods. It's already making you develop. We want to expand, to work with employees, to increase the room, to increase the number of equipment, to increase the number of orders. We are growing professionally, we are becoming a good factory. Our brand is recognized by the word VELBOX and our world. Come on. At the beginning, we had to reveal their internal potential, to give them the strength to believe in themselves and start planning their future. We see a great demand. We see that people who were maybe a little skeptical about the possibility of participating in such a program, the possibility of getting something, of getting our business officers to get new orders, to participate in the program. Over the first year of the program, from the end of 2014 to the spring of 2016, over 4,500 people received training. Among them, over 1,800 IDPs received self-employment grants. 370 people were supported to kickstart their micro-enterprises. IOM also funded vocational training for 300 beneficiaries. Denis is harvesting his mushrooms and waiting for visitors from IOM. The International Organization for Migration, together with its local non-governmental partners, follows the development of the businesses it helped to emerge. I plan to find bigger rooms to increase the volume. Well, I want to automate new rooms to measure the internal temperature of the block and control it. Then they are divided into mushrooms and these mushrooms become like this. With time, they are really all. Yes. To give people not a fish, but a duck. This is the story of this project. IOM was able to support self-employment and micro-entrepreneurship among internally displaced persons and IDP-hosting communities thanks to funding from the European Union and the governments of Canada, Norway, Japan and the United Kingdom. The lack of employment opportunities remains relevant for many Ukrainians. But for conflict-affected people it is an especially acute problem. According to the Donbass Community's needs assessment, conducted by IOM at the end of 2015, over 60% of both IDPs and locals need support with employment.