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 OREOLUWA DEBORAH FUWAPE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
Babcock University | Ikenne, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" I am excited to begin work as a Millennium Fellow and plan programs that would benefit the society around me and make the world a better place. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
This project involved me giving health talks to the members of staff of Babcock University and Babcock University Staff School. The health talks discussed measures that dould be taken to prevent chronic and infectious diseases in our daily lives, laying emphasis on hygiene, the importance of getting immunized and the need for better lifestyle choices.
The project was finished off with a health check-up program where the body mass index, blood pressure and random blood sugar of the participants were checked and the participants were counselled based on the results from these parameters.
The health check-up program was done in collaboration with The Mama Villa project, the project of Omololu Adebanjo, the Campus Director. The health check-up program was made possible with the assistance of students from the following departments: Public and Allied Health, Nursing Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics and Medicine and Surgery.
About the Millennium Fellow
Oreoluwa Fuwape is a penultimate year Medicine and Surgery student at Babcock University. She is an entrepreneur and fashion designer.
She served as a Senator for the Babcock University Student's Association 2018/19 session where she served as a student representative and ensured the welfare of the students she represented.
She is passionate about eradicating poverty in Nigeria, and she believes a key way to do so is through provision of quality education to the youths who cannot afford it.
She is also passionate about public health and preventive medicine as she believes most of the morbidities and mortalities faced today are preventable with adequate health education and implementation. She has given several health talks on preventable diseases and is passionate about letting everyone know how to be as healthy as possible.
