ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2019
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2019, over 7,000 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2019 on 1,209 campuses across 135 nations. 69 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 805 Millennium Fellows.
During the Millennium Fellowship, Millennium Fellows' dedicated 96,705 hours and their 422 unique projects positively impacted the lives of 564,366 people worldwide.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT HAMIDA MUNTAKA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
Ashesi University | Accra, Ghana | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" I am elated to be a Millennium Fellow because I feel it is a great opportunity and an avenue to meet great people doing things to cause a social change. It feels good to help other people. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Saakiya Foundation
Saakiya Foundation is a community-based foundation whose aim is to provide quality and accessible education to underprivileged students in deprived areas. How we intend doing this is to give stationeries and other learning materials to these students and motivate them to study harder. The foundation is geared towards achieving sustainable development goal 4, quality education. The objective of the foundation is to make learning easier for some disadvantaged students in deprived areas. Also, the project aims at allowing the students to partake in-class exercises and assignments. By September 2020, 15% of disadvantaged students in a deprived area in the Ashanti region of Ghana will have stationeries that they will need for their learning, and the team will carry this. Some of the activities that will be carried out by the foundation will be awareness creation on the importance of education to these students, providing them with stationeries and mentoring them to unleash their talents.
About the Millennium Fellow
Hamida Muntaka is a junior at Ashesi University majoring in Business Administration. Hamida forms part of the welfare committee of the Ashesi student council. She is the Finance Officer for the United Nations Human Commission of Refugees, the Ashesi chapter.
