Dadiya Sustainable Village, Nigeria

Beryl Kirk is returning from Canada to his parents' village in Nigeria. His vision is to help develop it into a renewable energy based, sustainable eco-village and is inviting other interested people to adopt it during its its birth. It will be a model of local government committed to sustainable development, democracy and all that those concepts entail. As a result of Beryl Kirk's visit in March, the tribe obtained their own local government that is being led by the people who invited him to come back and continue the work of his parents. He says, "Anything and everything is possible, an ICT community center, VSAT, radiophone, email and access to internet for learning, buildings using BASIN information and a microenterprise for constructing roofing tiles, village / rural electrification using solar." They have the federal senator for the area on their side and interested. The plateau behind this picture is where Beryl's parent's house was - only the school remains now. Water going into this stream comes from a pipe Beryl's father installed in 1932.