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 1,092 Millennium Fellows. The Class of 2019 is bold, innovative, and inclusive. Millennium Fellows' Projects are projected to positively impact the lives of over 978,400 people worldwide this year.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT GODSGIFT OSHIORIAMEN AGBOMEKHE , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
University of Benin l Benin City, Nigeria l Advancing SDG 4 and UNAI 3
" The next generation deserves a life that is way better than what we see today. They deserve all round Good health, Clean environment and a Violence free world. In order for me to contribute my own quota in effecting this change and better world we need, I have pick up SDG 4 (Quality Education) as a tool to achieve this and also support other SDGs.
I do this because I am a youth and I owe the next generation a world that is well sustained. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Fight Against Child Violence Using Quality Education as a tool for Awareness.
Fight Against Child Violence is a combat with violence (domestic,verbal,sexual and all forms of abuse) that has led to the deflated esteem of young bright and talented minds.
The projects aims at giving the abused a voice and enlightening the public (parents and guidance especially) about the menace of child violence and how it affects a child's performance mostly in school and also rehabilitating the minds of young children who are depressed as a result of abuse.
About the Millennium Fellow
Godsgift Oshioriamen Agbomekhe is a young African leader, a writer, photographer, public speaker, an ardent human right activist against sexual abuse and the girl child depravity, also an advocate on the need to groom the boy child, a member of the YOUNG AFRICAN LEADER INITIATIVE (YALI),
He is a final year Chemistry student at the University of Benin. He has over three (3) years of acquired knowledge in the social space by volunteering with several NGOs in order to reach out to young people and help impact knowledge. He is passionate about SDGs 3,4,16 and 17.
Because of his love for quality education and a violent free society, Godsgift is teacher with three years experience of teaching primary school pupils in his community about leadership and the need to shun violence. He also voluntarily tutor secondary school students the basis of chemistry to give them a good foundation of the course.
