User talk:Zeberhanu

Berhanu Zewdie Ejigu
Berhanu Zewdie was born on January 11, 1979 in North Western Ethiopia, in a town of Debre Markos, around 300KM away from the capital addis ababa. His mother was Semegn Mihrete and his father was Zewdie Egigu, both from Gojjam. The fifth child of a middle class family, he enjoyed playing football and looking after domestic animals of his family. In his formative years, he was described by his mother of a curious, focused but silent child.

When he was aged 6, he went to a nearby school called Teklehaimanot primary and secondary school. In his early school years, he was a good student who use to consistently rank among the top ten of his class. Even if his family and close relatives were much more interested and involved in commercial trading and farming, he was rather interested in academic issues from the beginning. As such, he loved to read Amharic poems and novels of his time.

In 1997, he joined Addis Ababa University for his first degree which he completed in Psychology. After his relatively nervous first year, he enjoyed what he described “the best years of his life”. After graduating in 2001, he was initially employed by Assela ATVET and briefly worked as a lecturer at Assela Nursing school. He then joined the then Debub university serving as an assistant lecturer at college of health sciences. He was then offered a job at the SNNPR HAPCO to coordinate a project funded by UNDP. There he worked as a policy analyst for about three years and eight months. In 2006, he become a program officer at save the children HRCI project working at Diredawa and Nazareth. He was next transferred to Bahir Dar to become a Regional Coordinator for a new project, USAID Care and Support program (HCSP) which was implemented by three international NGOs- MSH, Intrahealth and save the children in collaboration and fully funded by USAID to support health centers to commence providing ART for people living with HIV/AIDS.

At the end of 2009, he joined ZOA Refugee carefor a short term employment as a program manager for a relief aid program based in Gambella. After ending this short term assignment, he joined AAHAPCO in September 2010 to assume a Program Coordinator position for a huge HCT, Care and support program funded by PEPFAR-CDC with an annual budget of $500,000.00.

In 2013, he completed his second degree at Addis Ababa University in Educational Research and Evaluation.