WILLEMSTAD - In November 2017, the development bank Korpodeko launched a system for projects, whereby starting micro-entrepreneurs could receive a credit of a maximum of 5,000 guilders.

Korpodeko will not sit idle waiting for the interested parties to report, but officials will go into the neighborhood looking for candidates with promising ideas who, if they were to work with the financing organization, could count on intensive guidance and coaching to realize the project.

Korpodeko director Chesron Isidora aimed at 400 registrations at the time with the idea that 40 companies would eventually go through. Korpodeko says that the start of the project went a bit strange, but after the teething problems were overcome, it was finally possible to recruit even more candidates than planned.

Isidora says to have received 600 registrations and fifty of them will continued. These fifty will be able to set up their own businesses.

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