ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2020
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2020, 15,159 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2020 on 1,458 campuses across 135 nations. 80 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 1,000+ Millennium Fellows. The Class of 2020 is bold, innovative, and inclusive.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT OSASERE DANIEL AIWANSOBA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
Niger Delta University | Amassama, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow as it will give me the opportunity to learn. It will enable me to connect with great, like-minded individuals, providing a golden platform for learning, sharing ideas and insightful experiences with other youth leaders around the globe towards making the Sustainable Development Goal a reality in my local community and achieving development in Africa. It'll also help me acquire targeted skills that are beneficial to social impact activism.It will give me a larger audience to scale up my social impact and provide a template for my future activities in my region. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Act 4 Her Initiative
Women of reproductive age group, especially those in developing countries face numerous challenges regarding their sexual and reproductive health. The Act 4 Her Initiative seeks to promote women's reproductive health by increasing awareness on the use of appropriate and suitable contraceptive methods to prevent unwanted and high-risk pregnancies, the need to plan families including spacing of pregnancies and limiting the family size, in order to prevent or reduce maternal mortality to the barest minimum. Also to create and increase awareness on the dangers of Teenage pregnancy, unsafe abortion, Sexually transmitted diseases, Female Genital Mutilation, Child/forced marriage, and others.
By the end of 2020, the Millennium Fellows would have hosted about 20 events reaching out to about 2000 persons aged 15-49 years of the Women of Reproductive Age Group across departments of the 12 faculties in Niger Delta University. They will achieve this through Social media platforms including WhatsApp and Facebook.
About the Millennium Fellow
Osasere Daniel Aiwansoba is a distinctive Medical Student at the prestigious College of Medicine, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island. He also holds a Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry from the University of Benin. He is passionate about Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for which he advocates actively. He hopes to use research-driven data to create Sustainable solutions to the Reproductive Health ills of Women of Reproductive Age Group in his community through the "Act 4 Her Initiative" which he co-founded. He is the Director Of Human Resources and Personnel Management, SCOPH-NIMSA and member of SCORA-NIMSA contributing to her projects.
