Vasilya Farmonova, who studied entrepreneurship skills at seminars organized by the Kokand city hall, the city Women’s Council and the branch of the association of women entrepreneurs, started her own business for the first time in her life.

A young businesswoman bought the equipment with a soft loan and started a cooking class called “Vanilla”.

The Mayor of Kokand Maruf Usmanov also took part in the opening ceremony of the center. He noted that thanks to the reforms carried out in the country at the initiative of the head of state, conditions were created to provide permanent sources of income for the unemployed and low-income women.

Over the past period in 2021, more than 1000 women were trained in entrepreneurship skills, in total, more than 6 billion soums were allocated to them for soft loans..