A disabled Karaganda resident Adelina Bityukova received a state grant and created an art space for creative people.
Here you can draw, do tufting, and customize clothes.
Last year, 178 people from socially vulnerable categories in the region received state support to open and develop their own business.
Today, five people work in the art space "Sreda".
Large families and children from socially vulnerable groups study in the studio for free.
- We are engaged in sand and water painting, customization, tufting (the art of carpet embroidery). It is now very popular in Europe. A grant was received for this tufting equipment, - says Adelina. – We are constantly developing and expanding our center with new areas.
Grants are often used to open educational and rehabilitation centers, production of semi-finished products and confectionery, and farms.
Shynar Ten, the mother of a child with special needs, opened the NeuroTen neurocorrectional center for children's development. Grant funds helped her introduce new methods.
– With the money received, we purchased a metal structure for a sensory-dynamic cube and a set for adapted physical education. These elements help develop children's vestibular and tactile systems. In typical children, such skills are formed naturally on playgrounds, and children with special needs need to create special conditions for their development, - explained Shynar.
The grant support program for socially vulnerable categories of the population can be attended by large families, recipients of state benefits, social payments in case of loss of a breadwinner, people with disabilities, parents or guardians of children with disabilities, relatives, and immigrants. To do this, you must be registered as unemployed or have the status of an individual entrepreneur for no more than three years. A prerequisite is to pass the “Bastau Business” course on the basics of entrepreneurship.
Grants are provided once on a non-refundable basis in the amount of up to 400 MCI (in 2025, the amount will be 1,572,800 tenge). These funds will be allocated to purchase the necessary equipment, consumables, rent premises and other expenses related to starting a business.
“The most important thing in the project is that all grant recipients were previously unemployed. Now they are not only successfully running their own businesses, but also creating additional jobs,” says Nurzhan Syzdykov, director of the Labor Mobility Center for the Karaganda region.
This year, it is planned to support 183 entrepreneurs who are just starting their business and belong to socially vulnerable categories.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/karaganda/press/news/details/933092