Andrew Ehi-Eromosele comes from a city called Benin in the southern part of Nigeria. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. During his internship, he worked with IFRAD’s beneficiaries in West Nile and North of Uganda. He conducted more than 20 interviews, with both old and new beneficiaries, to evaluate the impact of the Youth Ignite Change program. He also pioneered the Cash Time mobile application for the village savings and loan association, integrating their manual work into mobile phones. These lessons equipped him with navigation, technological, report-writing, capacity-building, and project management skills. 

Arua Super Youth Group | Andrew Ehi-Eromosele 

This is the Arua Super Youth Group on their normal meeting day, Saturday. Different members bring their savings, which the secretary records in the book; those who need loans complete a form and collect the money, lent at an interest rate agreed by the group. The group has a chairperson, assistant chairperson, secretary, treasurer, and disciplinary officer. I chose the picture because of the zeal and passion that I see in the members of the groups, to effect change in their lives. Empowerment, for me, is when community members are the drivers of change in their various communities, with little support from outside agents. 

 

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