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 TUKURA LIYATU YAMMA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Jos University Teaching Hospital | Jos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 1
" Commitment and passion fueled by empathy has been my art work.
Reaching out to communities in order to improve their environmental health has always been my priority.
Becoming a Millennium Fellow will allow me to collaborate with other student leaders and brilliant brains who share my goals. We may all join hands in cooperation with these networks to attain that integral; excellent health for all. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Bend the Trend
INTRODUCTION:
The Project, Bend the Trend, was an attempt to address the aggregate of some of the major concerns that affect young people in our community, to wit, poor attitude towards education and learning, gender inequality and gender-based violence, and unwholesome approach to health. The main objective of the Project was to actively engage secondary school students on these issues and, thereby, “bend” the downward “trend” as regards the aforementioned concerns
The Project primarily hinged on SDG 4, Quality Education, as the goal was to restore the eroded value of education in the minds of the students who were reached. For context, in our community and much all over the Nigerian community, there has been a trending slang in Pidgin English, “School Na Scam”, among young people. Loosely translated to proper English, it means Education is worthless” or “Education is overrated”. The Project aimed to disabuse the minds of the students of that notion.
Relatedly, the Project also touched upon SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality), in order to create awareness amongst the students about the role of education in promoting good health and well-being and combatting gender inequality and gender-based violence.
PROJECT DETAILS
The field of outreach chosen, Government Secondary School, Tudun Wada, is a public community secondary school within the Jos metropolis, in Nigeria. Over 400 students who were the primary target audience were reached. The highlights of the event of the day were workshops and talk sessions which included a talk on the importance of quality education, a talk on wholesomeness of health (physical and mental), a debate on “School Na Scam?”, and a brief talk on gender inequality and gender-based violence, including defense mechanisms in vulnerable situations
About the Millennium Fellow
TUKURA LIYATU YAMMA, is a medical student of the University of Jos who is passionate about contributing her service towards the development of her community, country and the world at large.
Her journey started in fer first year when she actively participated in an online campaign on Mental Health Advocacy, under the NiMSA Standing Committee on Public Health.
Her commitment to service and development of medical students' bodies and organization, especially her MSA(JUMSA) made her seek more opportunities of service which she got in the NiMSA Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace(SCORP) to service as the Local official.
She organized activities according to the NiMSA SCORP plan of the year 2021 such as war against female genital mutilation, world human rights day an a zoom meeting on Mental Health Advocacy, where the IFMSA(International Federation of Medical StudentsAssociation) program coordinator for Mental Health was the speaker.
She has so much potentials and seeks opportunities to unleash them accordingly.
