2000-2003: S/r Tsigereda is offered a scholarship from Africa Hospice Uganda for their palliative care education program. She received her diploma in palliative care in 2003.
2003: With seven other members, S/r Tsigereda founds Hospice Ethiopia. S/rTsigereda transforms a room in her home into the Hospice Ethiopia office and begins the home-based care program with 20volunteer caregivers trained by Yeka Sub-city Health Bureau.
2006-2008: S/r Tsigereda signs a Memorandum of Understanding with AMREF which allowed Hospice Ethiopia to train 104 volunteers, hire a nurse, pay for transportation, move the
Hospice Ethiopia office,purchase office equipment, and last but certainly not least ,increase the beneficiaries to 704 HIV/AIDS patients.
2008: Hospice Ethiopia applies and is admitted to the African Palliative Care Association and the Foundation of Hospice for Sub-Saharan Africa,the umbrella organization for Caris Health care. Caris Health care offers Hospice Ethiopia funding which is used to hire a nurse for Home-Based Care.
2009: Funding is offered through True Colour Trust for the project “To Strengthen Hospice Ethiopia.” This funding was earmarked for nurse training, patient welfare, and transportation. With this funding Hospice Ethiopia sponsored a nurse to receive a certificate in palliative care from Hospice Africa Uganda. Included in patient welfare are food, medication, and hygiene supplies. Transportation includes nurses visiting patients in the home based program as well as patient transportation from home to hospital.
2010: Through local fund-raising and a donation from Caris Healthcare, the Hospice Care Center was established. The center includes ten patient beds and the Hospice Ethiopia administrative headquarters with a staff of 8.
2011: Hospice Ethiopia facilitates a training sponsored by Ethiopian North American Health Providers Association and Friends of Hospice Africa USA. The training team, Dr. Dan, Dr. Karen, and Dr. Jane, are inspired by the work of S/r Tsigereda and Hospice Ethiopia and raise funds to hire a project manager.
