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Fundación ProEmpleo
Presents
A day in the life of...
La Marmita 100% Natural Food Products
I was more than 50 years old
and to go knocking on a company's door
was very difficult.
I'm a widow
and I still had to encourage my children to study.
Pet Wet Mobile Dog Grooming
I worked on my own in sales for 20 years
The need to care for my family pushed me
to start a new business.
I thought that this type of business would be a good market niche.
Delidried Dried Fruits
I was a bank employee.
When that stage of my life ended
we thought about starting a business.
It's a family business run by five people.
Faber Duran Complete Carpentry
I lived in the United States for 9 years
where I worked in construction building
wooden houses and kitchen cabinets.
I came back from the U.S. 3 years ago
and it's not easy to find work
especially when you haven't been working here in Mexico for 9 years.
Green Bottle Recycled bottle products
We are three mechatronic engineers who graduated from UNAM.
We always had an entrepreneurial spirit
and we got to ProEmpleo through an INJUVE contest.
DuTricot Yarns
I worked for Aeroméxico for 16 years as a flight attendant.
I quit in 2009 to dedicate myself to this.
We love to create and that's the company's main objective.
I decided to go to ProEmpleo due to my lack of knowledge
regarding what I needed to do to start a business.
They are currently helping senior citizens.
I wouldn't have had on hand the tools,
the know-how, the advice,
the confidence they give you from the start.
The motivation from seeing that there are other people
who are also trying to start their own business.
I was very impressed with the fact that it was a four-week course
and I mainly liked most that you had to make an effort to deliver 80% of your project.
ProEmpleo is the key to success.
It helps you a great deal to structure not only your way of thinking
but also how to organize yourself,
what documents, what steps you need to take,
how to build your business, and build it well.
With ProEmpleo I've found that you can open new doors.
I have found more opportunities than I had in the U.S.
and I'm reaching my goals.
With ProEmpleo we have laid a solid foundation for our business.
It helped us realize that dream we had of having an environmentally-friendly business.
It removed all those taboos one believes in,
like that you need a lot of money to start a business.
What one needs more than anything is the will
and the desire to really want to create.
ProEmpleo's help has been essential.
It has been a basis that has allowed the business to operate.
It's a lot different being your own boss than being an employee.
There is more responsibility,
the commitment to society is greater,
the commitment to your family.
My husband is my right-hand man
but ProEmpleo is like a guardian angel behind me
that tells me, "No, don't go there,
go the other way."
An entrepreneur's characteristics include
wanting to create jobs, having initiative,
being proactive.
The drive, the decisiveness, the pleasure of doing things.
You need to love what you do.
You can do anything if your family is behind you.
Making an effort is more about winning than losing.
Think long and hard about your idea,
fall in love with it, and be willing to give everything for it.
Here there is hope that I may learn something.
They turned my life around.
At ProEmpleo, we help thousands of people successfully become reintegrated
into the labor force through the creation and improvement
of their own microenterprises.
Over 18 years, we have advanced the ideas of more than 64,000 entrepreneurs.
We have helped create and improve more than 25 thousand microenterprises...
...generating more than 74 thousand direct jobs and thousands more indirect.
More than 84% of businesses started through ProEmpleo are still running
after two years of operation, while national statistics show
that 80% fail during the same time period.
Our entrepreneurs not only learn how to successfully run a business
but also to value and believe in themselves.
They're architects of their own well-being and that of their family's,
able to overcome obstacles and, above all, owners of their own destiny.
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Each story is possible thanks to you.
Video directed by Daniel Loustaunau
Photography Rosa Hadit