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 ADESOLA EUNICE OYEWOLE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
Obafemi Awolowo University | Ife, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" I am so excited to be a part of this fellowship because it's a great opportunity for me to work with several impact driven youth from over 135 Nations and 80 campuses in the world, it's an avenue for me to network, gain insights, and also develop my leadership and relational skills in helping to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services including family planning, information and education and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: KLEROS INITIATIVE
KLEROS initiative focuses on educating people on the use of family planning and also contraceptives in order to ensure health for all. A lot of kids today are products of unplanned pregnancy, conceived just out of pleasure without any plans ahead of their birth. In some families the health of some mothers and even babies has been put at risk because of lack of child spacing. According to SDG 3; Ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at all ages, target 3.7 states that by 2030 ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services including family planning, information and education and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes there is need for the execution of project kleros to educate people on the use of family planning and also contraceptives in order to ensure health for all.
About the Millennium Fellow
Adesola Oyewole is an undergraduate student of demography and social statistics in the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. She is a young leader who is passionate about the sustainable development goals, she wants her voice heard and for it to create change. She is a volunteer and a member of the All Nigeria United Nations Students and Youth Association (ANUNSA) and the Global Youth Network.
