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 SUSANNAH UDEME JAMES, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Nigeria Nsukka | Nsukka, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" Being part of the Millennium Fellowship will give me the opportunity to create the much needed awareness to young adults. I will be able to put my skills of creativity, empathy and organisation to great use. It will add value to my knowledge of the medical field as I'll be rubbing minds with other Millennium Fellows to find better ways to help people make healthy lifestyle choices and conform with the principle of the United Nations SDGS. I am excited at the experience I'll have, the opportunity to finally make a change in the world through the younger generation. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Fight Against Hypertension
The Fight Against Hypertension Is a project that aims at promoting the awareness of hypertension (HTN) to students
at the University of Nigeria,Nsukka, and by extension, to their loved ones. Hypertension is a threat to the health of people, and it kills silently.
There is an axiom that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Therefore, the project is one of preventive measure towards HTN
and other cardiovascular diseases like stroke and heart failure.
The project would promote quality health through the following activities:
i.Creating awareness of chronic diseases, in particular hypertension(HTN).
ii.In light of the fact that HTN is not only a disease of the elderly but can also affect the young, a healthy living tomorrow begins with living right and consciously today.
iii.Educating people on how to go about the prevention and also better management of the disease for those already suffering from It is the key.
iv.This project would be carried out through outreach (free blood pressure checks), seminars, virtual meetings via Zoom, and the creation of fliers, banners, and 3D animations to communicate our intentions.
About the Millennium Fellow
Susannah Udeme James is a smart intelligent young girl from Nigeria. She is an undergraduate in the Faculty of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Nigeria, nsukka. She was born in Ogun State, Nigeria although she is an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. She hopes to reach out wide to students on the campus in an effort to reduce the ignorance plaguing most Nigerian citizens, and in the long run, affect their families too. She has witnessed firsthand the debilitating effects of not having access to Information capable of improving the quality of life, especially in the health sector. She hopes to use her skills in the medical field to provide free access to quality healthcare services for the less privileged, using the youths on campus as agents for change. This will help in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aimed at improving the quality of life.
