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
