TRAILER HOMES


TRAILER HOMES

Retired city buses were once converted to bakery outlets retailing bread supplied by ‘Sheger Bakery’ during their twilight zone. The city administration had used Anbessa City buses as its retail shops before formal outlets replaced them. Sheger Bakery, touted as the largest bakery and flour factory with the potential of baking two million loaves of bread daily, was to cater for millions of people in Addis Abeba with a subsidized bread supply but failed to live up to expectations. The old city buses are now dumped in different parts of the city, serving as trailer homes, far from the sights of city dwellers.


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