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 QUINCY KPAKPO ALLOTEY, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
University of Ghana | Accra, Ghana | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" I am much honored and would like to express my sincere-most appreciation for being selected as a member of the MCN class of 2020. The Millennium Fellowship provides the sole platform for training capable individuals who defer the odds to making life much better, not only for themselves but their immediate environment, making a major impact on the macrocosm of life at large. The Millennium Fellowship also provide the opportunity for networking, creating the avenue for learning from the experiences champions of the SDGs aiding in creating a blueprint and a guidelines in pursuing our own course in towards the attainment of the SDGs. I believe that in a world where quality education is made accessible to all, poverty and social injustices with have no place to prevail. I also believe that, it's our duty to be each other's keeper and pull each other along the great ladder of life. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Little Book
The Little Book is a project which focuses on distributing books, stories and textbooks to deprived school going children. This initiative is born-out from The Big Project, and initial project which focuses in the distribution of education materials to various schools under trees. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Big Project was not commenced, leading to the foundations of the Little Books Project which takes in focus distributions of books to children to aid in their learning during the remaining lock-down period.
The Project is at it's planning stages and would hopefully commence in the coming month.
About the Millennium Fellow
Quincy Allotey is a second generation student of the University of Ghana, reading Administration with a major in Accounting. He is currently the treasurer of the local chapter of NUGS on his campus and also the treasurer to the External Affairs committee of the SRC. Quincy is a practicing Buddhist with the Soka Gakkai International, a lay Buddhist organisation with substantive affiliations to the United Nation. He is a reserved person by yet-still easily gets along with everyone. he passionately believes in the principle of "UBUNTU", meaning "I AM BECAUSE, WE ARE"
