Millennium Village

When I first came to Nigeria with SIPA in 2008, we were supposed to visit one of Nigeria's Millennium Villages at Pampaida in Kaduna State. That part of the trip was canceled once we got to Nigeria so we were bummed, although the rest of the trip was great.

On the way to visit a grantee last week, we passed a sign for the Pampaida project so we made a quick detour to visit it. This totally made up for the missed trip in 2008! I was psyched - it was a totally SIPA moment.

We saw a health center, village hall, elementary school, school kitchen, and other places built with funding from UNDP and coordinated out of Columbia's Earth Institute (someone from SIPA, correct me if this is inaccurate).

Here is a health center and a school kitchen at the MV site: