The government is requested to buy 6 million pairs of footwear
The city of El Porvenir, more than 600 km north of Lima, is the capital of its district, which in turn belongs to the province of Trujillo, La Libertad region. The area is one of the largest footwear producing centers in Peru, which at the time supplied 60% of the national market.
Currently, El Porvenir has 220,000 inhabitants and 4,500 footwear production units, of which 80% are paralyzed by the pandemic and economic crisis, and the remaining 20% are working with minimal productions.
Most of the productive structure is made up of workshops and SMEs, which employ a large part of the population, due to the nature of the industry, which is labour-intensive.
The main problems afflicting microentrepreneurs are indebtedness, lack of capital and work.
Entrepreneurs from the leather and footwear sector of El Porvenir, in La Libertad, recently met to request the national government to buy 6 million school shoes from them through the social program Compras a MyPerú and achieve an economic reactivation in this area of the country.
The request was supported by the mayor of the district, Víctor Rebaza Benítez, who pointed out that the purchases will benefit the schoolchildren who will restart their period of face-to-face classes, in addition to favoring the economic reactivation of this sector that generates 80% of employment in the region.
Businessmen and authorities are waiting for the announced next visit of the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, to expound their reality and request the support of the State to restart a new period of recovery.
As a background, the mayor referred to the recent messages from the president where he advanced the extension of grace periods and the rescheduling of debts to Mypes, with greater access to loans for technology improvement.
The leader stressed that the new government "is betting on the national industry".
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