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 GRACE IMMANUEL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 2
" I am very passionate about helping young people gain clarity with regards choice of career. I believe that every student can be successfully guided on their career path via quality education and mentorship.I am the result of the time and resources that those who believed in me spent to show me the way and support me in realizing my goals. I want to be a part of these young people's wonderful career adventure. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Career Deck
Growing up in a society where the only recognized and respected professions include: medicine, nursing, accounting, banking, engineering, Law and sometimes mass communication. At least one of the above listed career options, is every parents dream for their children; anything outside that, is considered a waste of time, effort and resources.
A Career survey which carried out on final year high school students in the city of Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria revealed that only about 13% of these students knew of any other career path asides the ones listed above.
Little wonder when you walk up to a High school student and ask what their career aspirations are; they will definitely begin to spill "I want to be a Doctor, a Nurse, a Lawyer... without the slightest idea of what exactly these career options entails.
With a longing desire to ensure that these generation of Students are well equipped with informations with regards career options; I began to reach out to high school students in my community, giving them an opportunity to actually share their view about career and get to know different career options available and the requirement to excel in each. With a goal to help impact and mentor about 5 students in each academic session; and having about 90% of them, making great exploits in their chosen career now. I decided to embark on a project titled "Let's Talk Career" which aims at reaching out to high school students in Yaba community to guide them to take the right career decision via Career fairs and Career Mentorship platforms.
About the Millennium Fellow
Grace Immanuel is a Junior Microbiology student at University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an enthusiastic learner who is passionate about utilizing Science and quality education to solve problems and make positive impact around the globe.
She firmly believes that every student can be successfully guided on their career path via quality education and mentorship.
Through her project, she hopes to help high school students in her region on their journey to Stardom in their chosen Career field.
Her future goals are to work along with international organizations in implementing programs to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
