To enable all the female entrepreneurs who didn’t manage to file applications to take part in the fifth contest of small grants held within the Women in Business Program, a new contest will be launched soon, the Organization for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (ODIMM) has said.

The fifth contest of small grants involved 154 applicants from Moldova. The ODIMM received the applications online between March 11 and April 11, 2020, IPN reports.

The winners will benefit from a grant of at most 165,000 lei. The grants are provided to women who have run an enterprise during 0 to 24 months. The financial support can be used to purchase equipment, devices and development services.

As many as 379 women’s businesses based all over the country have been financed through the Women in Business Program so far. The approved grants came to about 52 million lei. More than 1,500 places were created as part of these businesses.