COMMENTS FROM BENEFICIARIES OF OSSAP- environment and the students are responding better now. As a teacher I’m always eager to go to class because the environment is clean, well MDGs CGS PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES ventilated, and well arranged. We are happy about it. - Chike Oraba (Teacher, Nawfija Secondary School, Nawfija, Orumba South LGA) 1. You do not need to introduce MDGs to anyone again in these communities. 5. I like the (MDGs) water best because it helps me in my business and it is It’s a family word now, and it’s what you hear people talk about because close to my house. Before we would go a long distance to a stream to get they have seen their handiwork with their own eyes. water. The community also likes the water because it is available to us at - Kenneth Ikechukwu Aniemena (MDGs Technical Assistant, Awka North all times. LGA, Anambra State) - Mrs Roseline Orjiewulu (Beneficiary, Ozubulu Small Town Water Scheme, Ozubulu, Nnewi South LGA) 2. We called the health centres to come for their drugs and because of their prior experiences some of them came in with small nylon bags but they 6. The old hospital was crowded and dirty. It was really poor. Now you can were surprised at what they received and had to call for bigger containers come in here and breathe fresh air. There is this feeling you have when you to take their portion of the drugs. are in a clean hospital. I think with this building and this health care center ANAMBRA STATE - Jude Nwankwo (MDGs Technical Assistant, Orumba South LGA, Anambra State) they have done excellently well with MDGs Goal 4, maternal mortality and child mortality. 3. Before the (MDGs) renovation, this place looked more like a bush than - Mrs. Oluchi Okpala (Maternal Patient, Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha North a learning environment. Now it wears a new look, to the extent that LGA) though it is a primary school, it looks more like a secondary school, and is even better than some of the classrooms in our universities today. It is an 7. This school was tattered, and students could not perform well because excellent job for the benefit of our children. our brains were not at rest due to the sun. MDGs renovated our school - Mr. Alor Jerry (PTA Chairman, Community Primary School, Ebenebe, Awka North LGA) building, built a VIP toilet for us, drilled a borehole and gave us some ACHIEVEMENTS OF learning materials. We can now read in our classes, so we have improved 4. (Before the MDGs intervention), this place was like a death trap. Students academically. For example the past SS3 students of this school came out don’t like coming because of the possibility of seeing some dangerous with excellent results, showing that the MDGs did affect them positively. THE TRANSFORMATION animals like snakes and scorpions. The MDGs have given us an enabling - Okechukwu Uchenna (Student, Christ the King College, Umuem, Anambra West LGA) AGENDA THROUGH THE OSSAP- MDGs CONDITIONAL GRANT SCHEME (2011-2013) MDGs Nigeria – Putting People First RENOVATION OF CLASSROOM BLOCK, EZIOGBO PRIMARY SCHOOL, RENOVATION OF CLASSROOM BLOCK, CHRIST THE KING COLLEGE, CONSTRUCTION OF STAFF QUARTERS, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH REACTIVATION OF SMALL TOWN WATER SCHEME, OGIDI, IDEMILI AMANSEA, AWKA NORTH LGA UMUEM, ANAMBRA WEST LGA CENTRE, UMUNZE, ORUMBA SOUTH LGA NORTH LGA CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL WARDS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL CONSTRUCTION OF STUDENT HOSTEL, SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY, IYIENU REACTIVATION OF SMALL TOWN WATER SCHEME, OBA, IDEMILI SOUTH REACTIVATION OF SMALL TOWN WATER SCHEME, OBOSI, IDEMILI QUARTERS, HOLY ROSARY HOSPITAL, WATERSIDE, ONITSHA NORTH LGA HOSPITAL, OGIDI, IDEMILI NORTH LGA LGA NORTH LGA ANAMBRA STATE SOME SUMMARY OF OSSAP-MDGs FLAGSHIP CGS DELIVERABLES IN THE PROJECTS ANAMBRA STATE IMPLEMENTED VIA THE (2011-2013) VIP FUNDING MDGs CONDITIONAL BOREHOLES, LATRINES OF GRANTS SCHEME SMALL TOWN IN SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL AGRICULTURE WATER SCHEMES HOSPITALS EXERCISE BOOKS, CO-OPERATIVES TEXTBOOKS AND INSTRUCTIONAL 210 218 MATERIALS 30 REACTIVATION OF SMALL TOWN BUILDING WATER SCHEME, OZUBULU, NNEWI ENGAGEMENT SOUTH LGA TRAINED HEALTH AND 36,049 AND TRAINING REFERRAL WORKERS CONDITIONAL RENOVATION NEW VILLAGE VEHICLES CASH GRANTS OF CLASSROOM HEALTH WORKERS (AMBULANCES) 965 529 BLOCKS 10 130 337 SCHOOL DESK, CONSTRUCTED, TRAINING HEALTH BENCHES, CHAIRS RENOVATED, OF NEW EQUIPMENT FOR PUPILS AND EQUIPPED HEALTH EDUCATION PROCUREMENT TEACHERS FACILITIES EXTENSION 1,925 WORKERS AND DISTRIBUTION PROVISION OF REFERRAL 74 SYSTEM, COMPREHENSIVE 30 20,764 HEALTH CENTRE, UMUNZE, ORUMBA SOUTH LGA RENOVATION OF 4 CLASSROOM BLOCK, COMMUNITY SECONDARY RENOVATION OF A BLOCK OF CLASSROOMS, NAWFIJA SECONDARY SCHOOL, EBENEBE, AWKA NORTH LGA SCHOOL, NAWFIJA, ORUMBA SOUTH LGA CONSTRUCTION OF BOREHOLE, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTRE,, REACTIVATION OF SOLAR BOREHOLE, UMUIKWU PRIMARY HEALTH CONSTRUCTION OF STAFF QUARTERS, ISULO PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE, RENOVATION AND EQUIPPING OF ISULO PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE, RENOVATION OF A BLOCK OF CLASSROOMS, COMMUNITY PRIMARY REACTIVATION OF SOLAR POWERED BOREHOLE, MGBAKWU PRIMARY UMUNZE, ORUMBA SOUTH LGA CENTRE, UMUIKWU, ANAMBRA WEST LGA ISULO, ORUMBA NORTH LGA ISULO, ORUMBA NORTH LGA SCHOOL, MGBAKWU, AWKA NORTH LGA HEALTH CENTRE, MGBAKWU, AWKA NORTH LGA.