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 MATTHEW OLAMIDE OLAWALE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" As a survivor, empathy and creativity are the driving forces that keep me moving forward in my causes. Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship provides me with a platform to influence more people by providing me with the skillset and exposure required to effect long-term sustainable change in my community. I am delighted to develop a more sensitive approach to problem-solving, utilizing my surroundings and resources, and, at the center of it all, sustainability. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Pad A Girl Project
Pad a Girl Initiative (PAGI) is a project that is targeted to solving one of the sustainable development goals (SDG 3); good health and well being. This outreach is seeking to create menstrual hygiene and mental health awareness in adolescence, teach how to make reusable sanitary pads and also provide sanitary pads to the girls.
About the Millennium Fellow
Matthew Olawale, a senior biochemistry student at the University of Lagos in Nigeria. He has been zealous about making a significant difference in the lives of those around him through sensitization, stigma advocacy, and rehabilitation, particularly those who have been deeply hurt by various unjust practices that have resulted in mental traumas, thereby creating an environment for increased life expectancy.
Matthew is a bright, hardworking student with a good sense of humor and the ability to make others laugh. He has been of great assistance to his colleagues who are struggling academically; he is very good at it, and he has been involved in social justice movements at school and in his community.
Matthew aspires to broaden the scope of his advocacy work to reach out to more people and provide his own contribution to the development of the United Nations' Sustainable Goals.
