ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT JOSEPH OKON UMOREN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Brac University | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 2
" For me 'humanity' is everything, and I believe in building humans to build their communities, hence I am excited to be part of this Fellowship because it will allow me to garner world-class knowledge and experience towards advancing the course of human development while creating a strong network with other passionate young leaders across different countries. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Community Care
Community care' is a project that will target to fix many social dysfunctionalities, the project aims to care for and give voice to the voiceless. especially the poor of the poorest, incarcerated people, rural women, young people and disadvantage community in Africa and some third world countries. There are many people living in communities where there is lack of basic amenities, such as access to quality education, basic health care, access to media and information etc. Also people in the incarceration centers lacks behind as many incarcerated people are in total restrictions and as such lacks access to this facilities and amenities as well, thus the possibility of them being able to reintegrate into the society to live a normal and crime free life is limited, and the government does less to assist these set of people to have them fully integrated into the larger community to be able to compete with others and survive. Hence community care; plans to engage these set of individuals who are highly disadvantage, especially the homeless, the incarcerated, and the poor women in rural areas and ensure they have access to quality education, acess to media and information and to help them reintegrate in the society.
About the Millennium Fellow
Joseph Umoren is a visionary leader from Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria; he is currently studying at Brac University School of Law, Dhaka Bangladesh. He is a curious and fun lovely person with deep passion for learning, he considers himself to be a social justice campaigner, a self development enthusiast, and a humanitarian. He had enormous experience in the areas of youth leadership development, human capacity building and development; for the past five years he has been actively involved in partnering with different IT businesses to leverage on their facilities to provide free computer appreciation skills to young people within Ikot Ekpene Metropolis. His vision is to ensure that many less privileged people have access to information that will reform and transform them.
