Kebebe Tsehay Center is one of four children centers under the Addis Ababa City Administration Women and Children Affairs Bureau. 

It caters for orphaned children, and those whose parents are unable to take care of them. Most of the girls are between one month and 8 years old.

With limited resources, Kebebe Tsehay Center, which is home to about 250 children, often relies on donations like a recent one from China’s diplomatic mission in Ethiopia, which included schoolbags, food, toys and stationery.

Aside from food like chocolate and milk powder, the Chinese group also brought two washing machines, said Lin Zhimin, counselor at the Chinese embassy in Ethiopia.

The head of the Addis Ababa City Administration Women and Children Affairs Bureau welcomed the gesture and called for more support for the disadvantaged girls.