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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ETIMBUK DANIEL UDO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.

University of Uyo | Uyo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9

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" "The desire to be humane and able to provide solution drives my work. Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will facilitate this ardor greatly. The expertise I procure in the Millennium Fellowship as well as the quick-witted persons I meet, will make my communal footprint appreciable and in line with the UNAI principles and SDGs. " "

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 [3].

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

Etimbuk Daniel Udo is a bright and young pharmacy student at the University of Uyo. She was born in Nigeria , resides in Akwaibom state. Etimbuk has always been passionate about public health as well as healthy living. This drive has led to her involvement in several altruistic
health care related awareness programs; which through her remarkable lead, she intends to keep on with in time to come. Etimbuk yearns to be in a professional field where she can nurture these health care awarenesses and contribute her quota in advancing of the United Nations' Sustainable Goals.

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