Our future plan is to expand to other suburbs within Addis Ababa and if possible to other growing cities in the country," said Dinku. She added the care centre has always given preference to senior citizens taking care of HIV positive grandchildren whose parents succumbed to the disease. Adem used to operate a small business in Addis Ababa but is currently an acclaimed weaver thanks to the space provided at the Eneredada care centre. Sustainable income generating activities like weaving, baking and plastic waste recycling have cushioned senior citizens at the Eneredada care centre from abject poverty that blights their peers in other parts of Ethiopia. The widowed ex-civil servant said that weaving is mentally and physically stimulating to senior citizens in their quest to escape loneliness and depression.

Source: Ethiopian News January 28, 2018 18:33 UTC