He is the founder of Ethiopia Reads, a philanthropic organization, started in 1998, with the motive of fostering literacy in Ethiopia. In 2002, Gebregeorgis left his job and moved back to Ethiopia with 15000 books and later, on April 5, 2003, he started The Shola Children’s Library with those books. In addition to the original library the organization established the reading centre named Awassa Reading Centre and Ethiopia’s donkey mobile libraries. These particular cart libraries, pooled by donkeys, were designed to facilitated children in rural parts of the country.