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 BENEDICTA OZIOMA IKEMEFUNE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 14 & UNAI 9
" Determination, consistency and hard work are key ingredients to success. I am very passionate about clean environment and very determined to achieve clean environment and make a social impact through Millennium Fellowship . "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Restore Aquatic System
Restore aquatic system is a project that aims to address the issue of ignorance of people regarding plastic pollution and aquatic pollution in general through awareness campaigns programs, workshops, and seminars. Other issues this projects would be addressing include: sensitization of local fish farmers on overfishing, under fishing, fishing with the right mesh sizes, fishing with the right fishing gears, making them aware that certain actions that they take lead to these problems and these actions have an effect on the aquatic life as well as their health. The effect of which may be positive or negative. In the long run an action such as overfishing may cause the fishes and other aquatic organisms to deplete, leading to loss of the fishery resources in that ecosystem and scarcity of fish to harvest as food. Sensitization is good but brainstorming to find solutions to the problem is even better, to conclude each seminar we will brainstorm ideas and try to develop solutions to the problem
About the Millennium Fellow
Benedicta Ikemefune is a lover of nature, a self motivated environmentalist, her interest for clean environment is unflinching. She is a student of university of Lagos and studies fisheries.
She has and avid interest in pollution particularly plastic pollution and aims to solve the issue of plastic pollution through education and awareness programs and encourages people to go plastic free. She has participated in various cleanup programs to drive social impact and even plans to host her own cleanup program soon. She loves to share her knowledge with others and is open to learning new things.
