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 OMOLADE MICHAEL OLAWALE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
University of Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 17 & UNAI 3
" Social impact has been one thing i have been doing and still doing and willing to do. Millennium Fellowship has provided a large platform for social impact bringing youth from all over the world together to advance the sustainable development goals and to make sure those goals are achieved before year 2030. I being part of this great platform is a dream come true and an avenue for me to continue my social impact on a larger scale by working together with like minds to achieve the SDGs "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sustainabe development advocates
SDA is a platform designed to create
awareness on the SDGs on campus,
implement projects and reduce exponentially
the alarming rates of students ignorance
towards the SDGs. We aim to sign at least
two-third of the entire university
undergraduates to sign up and supports the
SDGs.
As a testament to our achievements, SDA
ambassadors organized the first ever United
Nations Hult Prize competition in UNILAG,
completed a comprehensive training sections
on the SDGs for undergraduates during the
summer break, to mention a few. SDA is up
and running and aim to expand her horizon by
making at least two out every three students
sign up and support the SDGs through numerous projects.
About the Millennium Fellow
Omolade Michael is a 300 level student of the Department of Accounting, University of Lagos.
He is an SDGs Advocate and an academic scholar.
Michael particularly advocate for goal 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals known as partnership for the goals with mindset of making existing organisations key into the SDGs.
He was recently selected as a Millennium Fellow of the United Nations Aacdemic Impact Millennium Campus Network where he will be working under the Sustainable Development Advocates; the first registered club on campus to advocate the SDGs.
