Pandemic dashes hopes of Ethiopian families and youth


By AGENCY
  • Family
  • Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020

Hailemariam, a domestic worker who lost her job because of the coronavirus, hangs clothes after washing them outside her small tent in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo: AP/Mulugeta Ayene

As a domestic worker, Amsale Hailemariam knew from the inside out the luxury villas that had grown up around her simple shelter of raw metal and plastic sheeting. And in them, she saw how her country, Ethiopia, had transformed.

The single mother told herself,"Oh God, a day will come when my life will be changed, too.”

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