After 15 years of working in a room of a few square meters, Galina Minceva, a seamstress from the Corten village, Taraclia saw her dream caming true. She has a new, spacious tailor shop equipped with efficient sewing machines.

Until recently, Galina Minceva’s tailor shop was her living room.”‘I worked, then I had to gather everything, do the hoovering and prepare the place for dinner or sleeping. Now I get the keys, lock the tailor shop and go home”. With the help of a grant, the woman restored two rooms in the old house in the courtyard, bought two modern fur and leather sewing machines, one iron and one steam generator. Housewife and businesswoman, at her home. Without an academic background in the field, skillful and creative, Galina Minceva always had a passion for tailoring. She imagined a blouse from a piece of cloth. She cut it out, tacked it, tried it on many times until she liked the outcome. . At first, she began with clothes for puppets, but a friend taught her how to work with furs. Her voice whispers as if it shares a secret: “Furs like to be groomed, walked, to be air-dried, cleaned and not squashed.

Sofia Petco lives in the same village as Galina and she is the first seamstress hired at the tailor shop. She had worked for five years at a factory in the Comrat town, but she refused to commute since she has children. She learned to work with the leather and fur at Galina and says she is lucky she can work in village, close to her family. ‘Children are small, I work for four hours at the tailor’s shop. I manage to do something at home. I learned a lot and I like this job. It is wonderful. We begin to make a cloth from nothing and finish with a fully-manufactured item.’

Articles made in the Galina’s tailor shop can be admired and bought at fairs and exhibitions. Usually, she makes clothes or repairs old clothing at her clients’ request.

“I became more self-confident. I want to expand my tailor shop. Currently I have one more trainee, maybe we will hire her. I want to develop the business, I know I can do more”, Galina Minceva tells with confidence.

It is one of objectives of the rural development projects to which Maria Anghelceva, project manager, also refers: “Supporting small entrepreneurs is a priority. We hope that migration will stop in this way, at least partially. It means that inhabitants will choose to stay and work at home and will not go to other countries any more”.