BIOGRAPHY

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My name is Yonas Tiku. I was born and raised in Addis Ababa. I do tour guiding and helping families who are adopting internationally. I have been guiding tourists since 2009. I also arrange historical tours, cultural tours and Addis Ababa city tour. I also have been doing adoption related work for the last five years. I do arrange itineraries for families who come to Ethiopia for adoption, book their hotel/guesthouse, arrange meal plans, translate in a birth family meetings and arrange a trip in Addis and outside of Addis to meet birth families.

Before this job, I used to be a teacher. After I graduated in Geography from Addis Ababa University in 2003, I was assigned to teach in a remote area by the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. As I was born and raised in Addis Ababa, which is the capital and has a better infrastructure and services, traveling more than 1000Km from Addis for teach in an area where there is no electricity and clean water was such a challenge. I have learned two things from my first job; first how to sustain one’s life with a very difficult situation and second how I was ignorant about the different culture and history of my country. The trip I had to my first work was a three day trip by bus and taught me more than what I got from my School!