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 JEREMIAH OLUWAMAYOWA OMOJUYIGBE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
Obafemi Awolowo University | Ife, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow for the Class of 2020. This, I see as a golden opportunity to connect with alumnus, Fellow and like minded individuals who can help champion ideas and work towards achieving common goals. I believe making an awareness on the menace of drug abuse -tho not new - will make them more aware of these dangers and help improve drug use and reduce drug abuse. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Dose Right Initiative
Dose Right Initiative is one that is targeted at students of who have found abuse, misuse and addiction of drugs substances - alcohol, Prescription drugs - as an habitual act. The effects of this act is what many do not care about, providing this, with support to help fight addiction. During the Millennium Fellowship, we will work on achieving the following:
1. a 30 day online campaign against drug/substance abuse via twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp platform
2. An online talk on the consequences of psychoactive substances use, the benefits of proper drug use and menace on the youths.
3. A liaise with mission driven clubs and individuals with similar goal to impact lives and proclaim the interest of this project on campus.
Follow Dose Right Initiative on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoseRight
About the Millennium Fellow
Jeremiah Omojuyigbe, is a Year 3 student of Pharmacy at Obafemi Awolowo University, ile ife, Nigeria. A medical volunteer and humanitarian. He is currently volunteering as a First Aider at Nigerian Red Cross Society, so far he has partaken in AntiSuicide mass walk campaign, walk against breast cancer and so many others.
He believes there is a need to raise the alarm of harms caused by drugs when misused/abused by the populace; students to be specific. He reckons with the Sustainable Development Goals with SDG 3 the centre of the project.
He is a creative thinker, an innovation enthusiast with an additional interest in scientific research.
