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 JOY IHOTU ODOH, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Federal University of Lafia | Lafia, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 2
" Reaching out to young girls in my community who think they have nothing to offer, team work and putting hands together to archive a common goal, I'm excited to be a Millennium Fellow because I know the skills that will be gained from here will help me go a long way in making social impact in my community, and I am also soo happy to learn new ways of learning and creativity "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Girl Power: Catch Them Young
Encouraging young girls learn a skill so they don't go into prostitution.
The idea of girls going into prostitution and being dependent on men to earn money for their needs is a major problem in the world right now, young girls who still have sharp minds to make themselves useful go into harmful ways of getting money such as prostitution and they become so addicted and dependent on that.
I want to use to this project to encourage young girls out there, to encourage them learn a skill to build them up and make them prepare for their future, there are lots of skills around them which can be very cheep and handy to start something, something that'll bring food to the table for them. Most people don't know much about recycling, which I feel is a great way to start something, there's garbage everywhere around, and these could be recycled and can be made into beautiful piece which could be sold to earn, earn lord and lord of money. I'll use to project to encourage young girls and let them understand that there's more to using our initiative to make money than doing it the other way round.
About the Millennium Fellow
Joy ihotu odoh is an intelligent, young medical laboratory science student at the federal university lafia, Nassarawa state. She was born in Zaria kaduna state, and resides in area F ABU ZARIA. Joy has always been passionate about her social justice and women rights especially, this has made joy be a participant in the social community and has also made her have a continuous dedication for social action. Joy has always wanted to organize many social movements and project which she feels joining this Fellowship will make her have more opportunity to make this movement work. With her understanding of leadership and team work, joy aspire to contribute into developing into this project given to her. Joy dreams to be in a professional field where this dream of hers can be achieved.
