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 KADIATU A SHERIFF, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Liberia | Monrovia, Liberia | Advancing SDG 14 & UNAI 2
" I am change oriented and impact driven. I am very passionate about a safe planet for future generations. I have tied my life around setting one of the kinds of legacy of our world needs today, and being one of this years Millennium Fellow, I believe will add to me new value and organizational skill for promoting SDGs especially those SDGs goals of my focus. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Golden Waste Solutions
Education on proper waste disposals and utilization
About the Millennium Fellow
Name: Kadiatu A Sheriff
Nationality: Liberian
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Bio:
A student of public health at the state run university of Liberia. She is currently the climate Education Coordinator of the Liberian Youth for Climate Actions-LYCA, a leading youth climate and environmental Advocacy Group in Liberia, and she is a participant in leading dialogues in climate change efforts. She is an emerging social entrepreneur, founder and President of the Golden Waste Solutions Enterprise Inc., providing quality waste management services in her communities with focus on plastic recycling inorder to minimize the threat of plastic waste on marine and terrestrial environments and it's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, to conserve natural resources and habitats and achieve some level of social cohesion; working with marginalized women girls and persons (Youths)with physical disabilities through crafting of plastic waste as well.
She had been setting the pace and building momentum for youth involvement in Solutions building around the triple planetary crisis and leading some examples through the establishment of her social Enterprise GoldenWaste Solutions Enterprise Inc.; recruiting her peers for harnessing climate and environmental knowledge amongst local inhabitants of her communities in leveraging waste resources to create skill and unskilled jobs in the sector of waste.
