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 LAMINA IFEOLUWA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Olabisi Onabanjo University | Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 9
" Dilligence & Hardwork has always been virtues I learnt from my parents. I watch them go to work everyday and all I see is their unwavering commitment & love for their work. Hence I decided to adapt this to my life. As a member of the Millennium Fellow, I am excited to be one because now I can put those skills to work to achieve something great as well as leave my mark in the Fellowship as well as the world at large. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Igniting the Girl Child’s Potential
The United Nations holds the International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC) on October 11 annually to promote girl's rights, advocate for more opportunities for girls, to increase awareness on gender equality and also highlighting the challenges the girl child faces all over the world.
Following, the theme for this year's IDCG "Our time is now– Our right, Our future". The purpose of the project (Igniting the Girl Child's Potential) was to;
1.Assess the awareness of the knowledge on Bodily autonomy amongst rural adolescents girls.
2. Educate the girls comprehensively, on how to make autonomous decision about their bodies ( Bodily Autonomy) and reproductive funtions, which is the core of every girls basic rights to equality, privacy, and freedom from violence and abuse.
3. Boost the girls confidence on applying the principle of bodily autonomy in their daily lives, how to asserts their sexual and reproductive rights.
4. Inform them about women's right agencies such as UNFPA, UNWomen WOCON e.tc Hence, reducing gender gaps, unwanted pregnancies, discrimination and violence among adolescents.
About the Millennium Fellow
Lamina Ifeoluwa Ayotunde is a fourth year medical student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu OGUN state. He is a diligent, intelligent and meticulous individual who is always open to learn from others and takes people's experiences as lessons to be learnt out of life. He is respectful, humble and always ready to learn new things everyday. He is the second child of a family of 5 and he is a Christian by faith. He enjoys listening to music and loves inspirational people because they gear to him to do more.
