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 COLLINS AONDOAVER IKYOON, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Ibadan College of Medicine | Ibadan, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" If you can control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his action"-Carter G. Woodson. Leadership is about willingly taking responsibility to serve people in a way that they become influenced through a renewal of mind and a change of conduct. Thus, by controlling or influencing the peoples mind through service (responsible leadership), we can be sure of a community or society of people that think and act around making social impacts and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: My Mental Health And Me
Nigerian students' perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes toward mental health are inadequate. In addition, there are few national health policies that address the threat of mental illness. The rising prevalence of mental illness among Nigerian students reflects a gap caused by negative attitudes and perceptions, a lack of knowledge, and neglect.
Our project aims to bridge the gap caused by a lack of awareness, false perceptions, and neglect of mental health among students in order to alleviate the rising indices and effects of mental health illness.
Capacity building, in our opinion, can help with this by providing students with the knowledge they need to understand and control the causes and effects of mental illness in their environment.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ikyoon Collins Aondoaver is a Physiology student of the University of Ibadan College of Medicine. Collins was born in Daudu Guma Local government of Benue state, Nigeria. He currently resisdes in Lagos and schools in the University of Ibadan, all in Nigeria. He envisions sound Mental Health (and quality education) as a panacea to the Sustainable Development Goals. He is generally passionate about making contributions for a better humanity (social impact), he loves to see people and systems grow to full potentials, and he loves team work and making collaborations for a better world.
