From refugee to entrepreneur: an Ethiopian success story
It was the devastating war ravaging his home country that forced Ethiopian Getaw Cherinet to flee. Like many of his compatriots in the 1980s and 90s, young Getaw ended up in Kenya and spent a large part of his life in the crowded refugee camp Kakuma. Many years later and a world apart, Getaw is living in Ethiopia again, now a successful entrepreneur. What made this possible? ‘I was only a student when the government passed a new law, requiring all university students to go into military service. For me and 10,000 other students, this was the moment we knew we had to flee the country. We ended up in Kakuma refugee camp, where basic necessities like food and water were provided, but nothing more. There weren’t any opportunities for us. There was no way to continue studying, get any training, or even develop life skills.’ Making a living ‘I…
Tulip Addis has presented its product for financial institutes arranged by water.org
As per water org facility on accelerating access to safe water and improved sanitation through affordable financing Tulip Addis water filter has presented its product demonstration for the participant’s water.org, vision Fund Financing, Metemamen Financing and Liyu Financing at Executive hotel, Adama. On the workshop Tulip has presented its safe, simple and affordable water filter and expressed its interest to cooperate with the other financing firms to deliver its product for the lower income people as it is doing it with vision Fund Financing starting the beginning of March, 2019. Water org also explained it’s believe that the Ethiopia government will incorporate water and sanitation products to be instrumented through financial organization as it has include in its policies’ for solar products. Tulip Addis promised to keep its affordability for the society and use the entire social network to deliver Tulip Addis table top at point of use water…