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 KAOSISOCHUKWU JENNIFER IFEMEJE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
University of Benin | Benin City, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" I'm immensely grateful and deeply honoured to be a part of this family. Yes, we are not related by blood but a common love for humanity, service, peace and justice runs in our blood. As a young girl I've always been willing to give my life for the service of humanity in anyway way I can, and being a Millennium Fellow earns me an amazing opportunity to grow, learn and also share my ideas on social impact with great individuals around the world. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Covid-19 awareness project
The Covid-19 awareness project is a project that seeks to maintain sustainability in our environment by providing the right informations needed to fight against the spread of viruses in our communities majorly Covid-19, by fully educating the populace especially those who are ignorant of the preventive measures and symptoms of certain diseases caused by viruses. We have partnered with some pharmaceutical companies and certain individuals in other to gain access to more informations and tools needed to accomplish our goal of reaching a minimum of 1000 people within our communities. We plan on expanding our impact by sharing questionnaire to both the children and adults for a better understanding on how enlightened they are about the Pandemic and certain diseases caused by viruses. And also an interactive workshop would be held in the churches, schools of our communities that would also comprise of the distribution of face masks and sanitizers. Hopefully, if we are able to gain access to more funds and support, we also plan on providing free health care services for the sick.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ifemeje kaosisochukwu Jennifer is currently a second year Plant Biology and Biotechnology student at the University of Benin. She has volunteered and also taken part in various Social improvement programs, such as the 2019 Haste entrepreneurship summit which was a youth empowerment and orientations program that seeked to train students and unemployed youths in various skill sets in other to discourage and put a stop to "quick money schemes" precisely internet fraund, which is currently trending among the Nigerian youths. Lately, she was also part of the 2020 Global Hult Prize On-campus challenge which is an annual social impact competition that has an existing partnership with the United Nations.
