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 SOLOMON OLADIPUPO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
University of Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because the United Nations alongside MCN are bodies that have been at the forefront of promoting commendable social impact initiatives around the world – a cause of action which is just as much the preoccupation of responsible journalism. I am therefore using this medium to promote SDGs literacy as well as inspire less-privileged students from a community I am a product of. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Read, Set, Go SDGs!
Ready, Set, Go SDGs! sought to engage students of public senior secondary schools in Lagos State. Upon full academic resumption in late September, the project commenced activities to engage selected public schools in Lagos State. The aim of the project is to bridge the knowledge and exposure gap of the SDG among senior students of public and private schools in the state. The project aims to introuduce them to the SDG in order to allow them know more about the world they live in and how they can contribute to it.
About the Millennium Fellow
Solomon Oladipupo is a senior at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) studying Journalism and Media Studies at the Department of Mass Communication. He is a former intern of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). A freelance writer, campus journalist and editor of Unilag Sun. His decision to push the Ready, Set, Go SDGs! project was inspired by his observed gap in the literacy level among students of public and private secondary schools in the state.
