Nov 12, 2020
IFC talks to Getaw Cherinet about how and why he started a water filter company in Ethiopia and why it is important for him to employ refugees.
Cherinet has had an eventful
life, but his entrepreneurial story begins in the early 1990s when
he fled conflict in Ethiopia and became a refugee in Kenya’s Kakuma
Refugee Camp. In this episode, he talks about how he started a
business in the refugee camp and how his journey led him to New
Zealand, the US, and finally, back to Ethiopia. Here he started a
farm and a water filter business called Tulip Addis Water
Filter.
To learn more about business and opportunities in the Kakuma
Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei settlement, go to:
A Refugee Community in Kenya is Open for Business
Kakuma: A refugee camp with its own informal economy (video)
The Kakuma Kalobeyei Challenge Fund