Roraima currently has 42,794 Individual Microentrepreneurs (MEIs), microenterprises and small businesses that can benefit from the Believe Program. The program was launched this Monday (22).
According to the federal government, 27,478 MEIs are registered in Roraima. The state also demonstrates potential in the microenterprise sector, with 12,771 units and 2,545 registrations in the small business sector that will be able to expand access to credit, renegotiate debts and receive more support.
“There is nothing more essential for a society, whatever it may be, to develop, if it is unable to have opportunities and if it does not have credit. We are creating the conditions so that, regardless of quantity, social origin, size of business, people have the right to access the financial system and take out credit”, stated the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during the program launch event, at Palácio do Planalto.
The Believe Program is a significant federal government initiative to strengthen the Brazilian economy, offering targeted support to small businesses and promoting entrepreneurship and sustainability
Focus on women
Among the over 27 thousand MEIs in Roraima, 12,310 (44.8%) are women. To focus on this audience, the Program has Axis 1 that will assist with microcredit, since 84% of Bolsa Família families are headed by women.
“Women have more difficulty accessing credit in Brazil. Only 6% of entrepreneurs received help from financial institutions to open their businesses, and the majority, equivalent to 78%, started their business with their own resources, according to Sebrae. Of the total number of entrepreneurs, 54.9% combine domestic and business tasks, which is one of the factors they point out that affect their performance”, pointed out the federal government.
In Axis 1, low-income families registered in the Single Registry, informal ones, small rural producers who access the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and support for the Rural Development program are also targets of credit assistance.
