Global Health Progress

When former Santa Maria resident Tsige-Roman Gobezie returned to her native Ethiopian village after decades spent abroad, the abject poverty of the people living there stunned her.

Five years later, the woman known as “Ziggy” to friends and family cashed in on her retirement savings to open the Gobezie Goshu Home for the Elderly, a haven for disabled and or destitute seniors in Adwa.

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