From street kid to mentor: surviving childhood labour in Ethiopia
FORMER child-labourer Teklu Haimelo, 41, is on a mission to help Ethiopian children on the outskirts of Addis Ababa who weave traditional clothes get an education. This is Teklu's story as told to Ethiopia correspondent EMELINE WUILBERCQ When I was six, I had to go to my village to help my grandparents take care of their cattle. There was no education and children were treated by their relatives as workers. It was hell in the village. Life was very hard. I did not have proper clothes. There was no water to wash our hands before eating and no basic infrastructure.…