UMEZ Provides Term Loan to Pequeñines

Lissarette and Viktor Nesnevich with their son outside of Pequeñines / Photo courtesy of Pequeñines

NEW YORK – In 2018, Lissarette Nisnevich opened the daycare and preschool Pequeñines “Little Ones” after seeing a need for early childhood education services and quality childcare services in her East Harlem community. Using her expertise and over a decade of experience in education, Pequeñines was born. Pequeñines is a family-owned, premium Spanish bilingual and bi-cultural daycare, located at 426 East 120th Street. Since its opening, Pequeñines has welcomed a steady stream of students from the community filling up the capacity of the original location at 12 students. With continued need and a growing waitlist, Lissarette made the realization that the school needed to expand to fulfill her community’s needs.

Lissarette came to the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ) to help finance her dream of expanding the preschool. Her UMEZ small business loan will contribute to the build-out and expansion of their second location at 340 Pleasant Avenue, which is located approximately two blocks from the original daycare and will be able to take on 15 more students. UMEZ is proud to provide small business financing to Pequeñines to continue serving the next generation of little Upper Manhattanites.

To learn more about Pequeñines, please visit their website and their YouTube channel.

"UMEZ was there when I needed them the most, they were extremely helpful, knowledgeable and efficient. Our business expansion is complete and the East Harlem community now has a high quality Pre-K for children to thrive because of their assistance."

-Lissarette Nisnevich, Pequeñines