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 OKECHUKWU C. CHARLES, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Federal University of Technology Akure | Akure, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 5
" I think it is exciting and fulfilling to be a part of those who make efforts at ensuring that their community and by extension, their country become a better place. Getting the opportunity to now become a Millennium Fellow, I believe, will help me get better equipped with necessary skills required to keep making an impact wherever I find myself. Not just that, I believe I will also get the chance to be connected to brilliant minds from whom I will gain a lot. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: P.E.A Mentoring Challenge
P.E.A Mentoring Challenge is a project targeted mainly at at-rist senior high school students in underserved communities. The main idea of the initiative is to mentor these students for a period of time, and helping them realise that for them to break out of the cycle of poverty, education is imperative tool.
About the Millennium Fellow
Okechukwu Chinenye Charles is an intelligent, smart, young Fellow, who is a 3rd year student of Industrial Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria.
He is one who is really passionate about volunteering and keenly interested in giving back to the society whenever he gets any opportunity to do so. As a testament to this, he has been a part of several programs and projects aimed at making impacts in the lives of individuals in underserved communities. Additionally, he has spent at least 7 years volunteering with an NGO in the community where he grew up.
Okechukwu hopes in the near future, to get involved in more give-back projects that will have much more impact in the lives of the younger generation, especially as it concerns the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
