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 EMEDIONG UDOKA INYANG, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Uyo | Uyo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" I believe that being a part of Millennium Fellowship will help sharpen my leadership skills, give me the knowledge and right resources needed to make social impact in my community and also give me an opportunity to network with great minds. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Team Mental Milestone
Mental health has been a major problem encompassing Nigeria at large. Across 37 studies published between 2008 to 2020 and spanning 97,616 adolescents, the researchers found the following prevalence: depression (26.9%); anxiety disorders (29.8%); emotional and behavioural problems (40.8%); PTSD in one study (21.5%) and suicidal thoughts (20.8%).
Experiencing a traumatic event, especially in childhood can trigger a mental health condition, like depression. It could also lead to poor coping mechanisms and result in early experimentation with substances and lead to an addiction over time. Drug abuse has been a cause of many criminal offences such as theft, burglary, sex work, and shoplifting.
This project which seeks to promote the SDG 3: Good health and well-being aims at creating an awareness among about 200 high school students in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, about substance abuse, and mental health disorders and the correlation between both.
This awareness will provide a way out for victims of addiction and mental illness, as the students will also be educated on how to achieve milestones in their mental health which affects their entire well being. We would cooperate with the health prefects to provide the necessary facilities .
Placards containing mental health information, help-lines and contact numbers of trusted counsellors from rehabilitation centers or psychiatric clinics will be set up at strategic points in the school.
They will also be educated on the importance of seeking for counseling and building strong bonds and relationships with trusted adults and friends in school which will provide them with a sense of connectedness and can protect them from poor mental health.
Conclusively, one on one counseling, distribution of questionaires before and after the awareness and collaboration with the school's counselor and health prefect
will be effected, to measure the impact of the project.
About the Millennium Fellow
Emediong Udoka Inyang is a pharmacy student studying in University of Uyo. She is a young lady who is passionate about improving lives of People through providing quality health care.
She is enthusiastic about volunteering for organizations where she teams up with other young leaders to create impact in her community. She loves working in a team and organizing people to get things done. She has special interest in young people which is the audience she seeks to reach out to through her project.
As a young leader, she is also passionate about improving her self through personal growth and development.
