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 OLAITAN AJETUNMOBI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
Lagos State University | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" MCN Is a global non profit fellowship aimed at bringing together young leaders across the globe with the aim of propagating SDGs.
MCN would help me connect with other change makers across the globe, it would also help me build strong leadership and social skills. I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because I have always wanted to impact lives, this is a huge opportunity to harness my potentials. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Mental Health Talk 1.0
Mental Health Talk 1.0 was born out of humanitarian passion and love for the society and the students in ensuring a good mental health and well-being. The program tagged Mental Health Talk 1.0 was aimed at creating awareness and advocating on how students and individuals can curb mental health issues which include suicide and depression and ensure a good state of well-being of the students and individuals.
Specific Objectives:
✔ To Create awareness on mental health issues and how to deal with it.
✔ Tackling depression, suicide and bipolar disorder.
✔ To educate and enlighten students more on mental health.
✔ Addressing issues on anxiety disorder and promoting good well-being of the mind.
The program provided effective changes in the life and mental health of the students. There was also a one on one platform session with the facilitators, in which the students and individuals were allowed to ask mind bothering questions, so as to ensure a healthy life and zero depression.
Resulted Outputs:
✔ 75% reduction in the rate of suicide and depression on campus.
✔ Adequate improvement in the students and individuals mental health.
✔ 75% reduction in the rate of anxiety and bipolar disorder.
✔ Excellent improvement in the way students handle issues relating to their mental health.
About the Millennium Fellow
Olaitan Ajetunmobi is a penultimate student of Lagos state university studying chemistry. She's very ambitious, dedicated, focused and diligent. She is passionate about bringing change to the world. She is a sustainable development goals advocate, with great enthusiasm and interest in propagating SDG goal 3, centered around good health and wellbeing. She would help in reducing suicide and depression rate on her campus.
