Cancer
care Ethiopia is a non-profit organization determined to help the poor cancer
patients in Ethiopia that couldn't afford to treat their illnesses well.
Cancer care Ethiopia is directed by two boards, one in Norway and another
working in Ethiopia under the founder grom moges. Grom Moges, ... Read more Cancer
care Ethiopia is a non-profit organization determined to help the poor cancer
patients in Ethiopia that couldn't afford to treat their illnesses well.
Cancer care Ethiopia is directed by two boards, one in Norway and another
working in Ethiopia under the founder grom moges.
Grom Moges, a
Norwegian-Ethiopian, lived many years in Norway. He works as an engineer at a ferry company
called Norled in Stavanger. In 2004, he was diagnosed with cancer. The
disease was in a severe condition and harsh treatments at Stavanger University
Hospital followed. Lying in intensive care unit, he got an opportunity to
reflect on his life and measure his journey.
He said to himself, ''So far I've only been preoccupied with making money to make
life better for me and my family. If God gives me a second chance and
I recover from this severe disease, I will do something for someone else other
than me or my family. I will help cancer patients in Ethiopia, my birth
country''. An idea born in a hospital!
He did recover, and was very
grateful for the excellent treatment he had received in Norway. With five
Norwegian good and initiative friends in Stavanger, Moges and his wife
founded Cancer Care Ethiopia in 2007.
The organization took as its
purpose and vision to take care of children and poor women cancer
patients in the Ethiopia, who has no means of accommodation during their
stay in Addis Ababa, the capital city where there is the only hospital with a
cancer ward in the entire country.
After legal registration of the
organization both in Norway and in Ethiopia, the first cancer home in Addis
Ababa got opened on 14th of November, 2009.