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 ILIYA REUBEN FILIBUS, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Taraba State University | Jalingo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It's to be useful, to be honorable, to be
compassionate,to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well, being part of the Millennium Fellowship will help me actualize this purpose. The skills and knowledge i will learn from the Millennium Fellowship will improve my social impact to my community aligned with the SDGs. I am really
excited to be given this great opportunity as a Millennium Fellow because I will really learn alot." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: MALARIA AMBASSADOR'S
Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by the bite of an infected female anophele mosquito, according to the report of the World Health Organization in 2019, this disease leads to the death of a child every 75 seconds. Nigeria and sub-saharan Africa at large face a big threat as a result of malaria, Nigeria accounts for about 31.9 percent of global malaria deaths; approximately 200,000 deaths in 2021.
My project MALARIA AMBASSADOR'S is a malaria intervention project geared towards enhancing the sensitization of malaria and also its preventive approaches in my community Taraba state and eventually across Nigeria. Focusing mainly on the younger children and pregnant women who are at greater risk of this disease.
To do that i plan on having a group of volunteers to help reach that goal and Hopefully partnering with like-minded organizations to better achieve this goal. By the end of the Fellowship in November, my target is to reach out to 600+ individuals through outreaches, school visitation etc, and also continue with the project after the Fellowship program is over by God's grace
About the Millennium Fellow
Reuben iliya filibus is a young , bright and passionate medical laboratory science
student, faculty of health sciences,Taraba state University. He was born in Nigeria and grew up there; since at the tender age , Reuben has always been passionate about helping the under privileged and making a difference in the society. He believes to have gotten the opportunity and platform to show case his passion when he was selected as a Millennium Fellow class of 2022 and also to extend that in the future. Reuben aspire to be in the professional field where he believe provides him with greater opportunity of reaching out to the community and give his own contributions to the growth of united nation's sustainable goals .
