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 OLUWADEMILADE ADEDAMOLA ADENIYI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
University of Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 8 & UNAI 4
" I am truly excited to be a Millennium Fellow as it is a great privilege and opportunity to work with like minded and diverse people. I desire to make great impact in the lives of teenagers, youths and the society at large. I believe that building capacity will make an individual limitless and the seemingly impossible things become achievable. I am deeply committed to developing myself and people, I will go great lengths to see this achieved. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The BuildYou Initiative
The BuildYou Initiative project seeks to promote Goal 4 and Goal 8 by ensuring that young Nigerians are educated beyond the four walls of the classroom while also acquiring soft skills that would bring about innovation and help them to build an entrepreneurial mindset which in turn will contribute to the growth of our economy.
Semester Objectives:
• To ensure that Young Nigerians are aware of the SDGs.
• To encourage them to advance the global goals wherever they find themselves.
• To make them see a need to add value to themselves and build capacity.
• To equip them with Soft Skills that prepare them for an advancing world.
• To help them sharpen their skills to build an entrepreneurial mindset.
By the end of the Millennium Fellowship, the team hopes to impact the lives of 500 people.
About the Millennium Fellow
Oluwademilade Adedamola Adeniyi is a young guy who is passionate about building capacity and self development and hopes to help youths and teenagers build themselves He believes that everyone is a leader and has a potential to be great at what they set their mind to do.
