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 CATHERINE OLUWASEYIFUNMI OMORUYI-ERO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
University of Benin | Benin City, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" I am full of excitement to be part of the Millennium Fellowship as it is a great step step towards ensuring that good health and well being is made easy for everyone through the dissemination of right information. Millennium Fellowship creates that room were my voice is amplified so that everyone can hear easily. I look forward to working with youths with same drive. With the right information regarding our health, Good health and well-being will be sure for all. To this course, I have pledged my allegiance. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Community Health: Awake from Obscurity
Community Health: Awake from Obscurity is targeted at communities mainly rural communities who still indulge and regard harmful health practices as a norm and a way of life. The project is centred at exposing to these individuals the truth about these behaviours detrimental to their health because in most cases the individual may be unaware of the relationship of behaviours to health. It is also aimed at enlightening them on how to do with unhealthy practices and also introducing good health practices that fits with their cultural beliefs that will improve individual health and the community's at large
About the Millennium Fellow
Omoruyi-Ero Oluwaseyifunmi Catherine born and raised in Nigeria. As an Health Education student currently in her third year in the University she has noted how people still engage in detrimental health practices. With her program, Community Health: Awake from Obscurity she hopes to create a change.
