Bethlehem Kiros Haileselassie

Bethlehem Kiros Haileselassie has four years’ experience coordinating a street-child rehabilitation project in her home city, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia Currently, she works as a freelance writer but she also volunteers in two organizations that work on child care and education. In addition, she is in the process of establishing a social enterprise that produces leather handicrafts to create jobs for impoverished single mothers. After completing the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Bethlehem Kiros Haileselassie plans to launch the social enterprise and establish its social wing, which will initially comprise a community day care and after-school program for children of the single mothers who are trained and hired by the business. Eventually, the project will reach out to other children in the community who live in difficult circumstances.