Admissions center of Dire Dawa

Place :

Oromo country, in Eastern Ethiopia.

Number of inhabitants :

About 400 000 inhabitants

Manager :

Hanna Alemu Bezabeh

Number of children in November 2010 :

14 children including 2 HIV positive

Age :

From 17 days to 8 years

Staff :

4 baby-sitters, 1 social worker, 1 chef, 2 keepers

Budget by year :

243 400 birr for daily life of children and 102 900 birr for HIV positive children health.

The city :

Dire Dawa has been constructed by French-Ethiopian railway industry. The city has known rapid industrial expansion thanks to railroad line between Addis Ababa and Djibouti. This city has a very specific architecture that melt the French, the indian and the yemenite architectures from 50s.