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 SALAKO OLAJIRE OLUWAGBENGA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Ibadan College of Medicine | Ibadan, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" "Leadership and Capacity building, fueled my passion to become a Millennium Fellow. Millennium Fellowship is the right platform to build my leadership and capacity in medicine and community service and to also achieve my plan for SDG 3" "
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
Salako Olajire Oluwagbenga is a native of Yorubaland in Nigeria. He is 20 years of age and the last born in a family of four including my father, mother and sister. He is a well determined, pleasantly calm and goal getting individual.
He is full time student, motivated by love for learning and excelling as he strives to become an outstanding student in his field . He is currently a 2nd year Medicine and Surgery student of the university of Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. He has a definitive goal of being a professional researcher with a more excellent leadership skill and capacity building skill.
Due to his passion for societal and health impact among youths,
he volunteers in various NGOs such as Red cross society, Slum and Rural health initiative, ASIDO mental health association and many more. He also engages in other extracurricular activities like watching and playing football.
His main aim is to build a community of people who will take the world by storm social and health-wise with great level of leadership.
