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 CHUKWUDUMEBI ANGELA IGWILO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
University of Lagos College of Medicine | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" I am so excited to be a Millennium fellow because I hunger and thirst for a strong social change in my country.Where I'm from, the people have already given up hope on becoming a better nation or improving our standards of living. But I believe that it is possible! and that my country can do and be more and I feel like being a Millennium fellow is a step forward in achieving this is my country. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The M.A.AD Project(Medical Student against the abuse of drugs)
MAAD
Medical students Against Abuse of Drugs
This is a pet project by the cohort of Millennium Fellows of the College of Medicine, Univeristy of Lagos, Nigeria.
The project aims at stirring conversation and proffering solutions to the abuse of drugs with a focus on the students of the College of medicine, University of Lagos and Secondary School students.
The abuse herein covers both use of hard substances as well as the misuse of legal drugs and its repercussions.
SDG - The SDG in focus is SDG 3 - Good Health and wellbeing, in particular ; Section 5,which seeks to ;
Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.
UNAI principles ; the UNAI principle guiding our project is "Education for All" - A commitment to educational opportunity for all people regardless of gender, race, religion or ethnicity.
GOALS
Creating awareness on the menace and the repercussions of abuse on drugs. Especially as it pertains to students.
Understanding the causes or predisposing factors to abuse of drugs by the students.
Ensuring the 3,000 plus strong population of the college and about 1,000 students of selected secondary schools have access to counselling services and up to date information on drug abuse and ways to curb it.
About the Millennium Fellow
Igwilo chukwudumebi Angela is currently studying medicine and surgery at the College of medicine of the university of Lagos and is in 200lvl at the moment. she is passionate about social change and social impact and how great a difference SME's can make in this respect. She is currently a senator representing the interest of her class at the association of medical students of the university of lagos, she loves to speak and inspire people into action and that is why she is currently a toastmaster working on becoming a competent communicator and serving as the general secretary of the club. She also loves to cook, hang around friends, have fun and be a youth once in a while!
