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 CHERISH MERCY JEFFERSON, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 17 & UNAI 9
" Participating in the Millennium Fellowship will help me develop certain skills and abilities like communication, team management etc, that would be necessary in my social impact career. I'm eager to develop my anticipatory skills through imagining innovative approaches to education and creativity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sustainable Development Advocates
As an individual with an innate zeal for service to humanity, I joined SDA in 2020 so as to chart a course of change. Sustainable Development Advocate (SDA) is the first registered club on campus to advocate solely for the SDGs. Its implementations are done through partnerships and physical advocacy to drastically reduce students' ignorance of the SDGs.
Over the years, SDA has partnered with organizations like HULT prize- a global competition that challenges students’ to build and deliver social change through entrepreneurial and leadership skills, Mason Research Hub- a 3 day training program on the SDGs and social development that impacted over 500 students. SDA also emerged as African Youth for Environmental Fellowship, where she developed an initiative to tackle plastic pollution. SDA also consistently advocates physically for the SDGs through -clean-up project at Ilaje Bariga, mentorship seminars for students on campus amongst others.
Specifically during the pandemic, SDA was able to build a community of like minded individuals through its Covid-19 broadcast- an initiative aimed at ensuring participation of educated and uneducated individuals in covid-19 preventives measures and we partnered with Helpmate Youth Foundation to conduct an education summit webinar which impacted over 2000 students.
About the Millennium Fellow
Cherish Jefferson is a 500 level student of University of Lagos studying Civil Engineering. Cherish currently serves as an Administrator and QA/QC officer at Sustainable development Advocates (SDA). She currently General Secretary at her departmental society and has also taken up other leadership roles on her campus. She is a student passionate about volunteering and making social impact in her environment. She advocates SDGs 6 and 14 as she plans to curb the rate of water pollution in her community.
