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 OLACHI LILIAN ONUKWUGHA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Nigeria Nsukka | Nsukka, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" The work I do solidifies my belief that true happiness comes when we do good to others.
I believe that this program will help my learn how to make an even bigger impact in the society. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: A Stain-free Society Initiative
A Stain-Free Society Initiative is a program that seeks to shed more light and demystify Menstruation for budding junior(secondary) school students in Nsukka, Nigeria. Menstruation which is an inevitable event in life for every girl and woman is often met with speculations and hearsays and this makes it difficult for young ladies who are experiencing their menarche to navigate. This leads to the prevalence of avoidable infections thereby causing the girls to live in fear of their next menstrual period. This project seeks to make menstrual periods less dreadful and more hygienic for the girl who just started seeing her period.
This initiative will promote menstrual health for all girls via the following means:
1) creation of awareness to educate junior school students on the importance of good hygiene practices during menstrual cycle.
2) carrying out discussions in focus groups before and after the program inorder to find out how much knowledge they have about the topic and to identify harmful myths that need to be debunked.
3) The end result of this initiative would be to make the participants conversant with good hygiene practices as regards menstrual health and also to create a ripple effect whereby the paricipants will be able to teach other girls how to handle their periods when the time comes.
About the Millennium Fellow
Olachi Lilian Onukwugha is a smart, self-motivated Pharmacy Student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is a Nigerian who has spent most of her life in Nigeria and so understands the social landscape of her country and as such the problems Nigerian women face.
As someone who has experienced first-hand how a Woman's self-esteem can be affected by the lack of knowledge of Sexual and reproductive health, she has made it a lifelong goal to educate the Girl child inorder to produce confident women in society.
Her experiences have given her the much-needed zeal and dedication to tackle issues centred upon social justice and women's rights.
Olachi aspires to be in a professional field where she can carry out this advocacy and also contribute to the actualization of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
