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 AMA-OJI CHINYERE ROSALYN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Nnewi Campus | Nnewi, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 2
" I am very excited to be a part of the Millennium Fellowship because it is an amazing and valuable learning opportunity to hone skills, receive training and gain insights relevant to social impact and leadership. I'm thrilled to experience this as part of a diverse network of brilliant, creative and dedicated people who share my enthusiasm for positive social change and service to community. I look forward to connecting, collaborating on ideas and finding ways in which our varying perspectives and worldviews can synergise, to inspire fresh and effective strategies for addressing global issues.
The Millennium Fellowship also provides a great avenue to elevate my contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals, which I am passionate about, as it encapsulates an actionable path to achieving a flourishing present and future for everyone. My particular passion and work towards SDG 5- Gender Equality is motivated by a strong desire for a society where women and girls can live free of shame, prejudicial treatment and oppression; and can prioritize thriving, not just academically and fianancially but socially, sexually and mentally as well. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Unbound Woman Initiative (TUWI)
Liberation is defined as the freedom from limits on thoughts or behaviour and the act of gaining equal rights and full socio-economic opportunities for a particular group; this is the premise on which The Unbound Woman Initiative (TUWI) was founded.
The Unbound Woman Initiative (TUWI) is a project founded by two students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University College of Health Sciences, Nigeria and its aim is to meet the need for a more holistic, communal and nuanced approach/perspective to feminist discourse and women's liberation. One which is tailored towards addressing the peculiar gendered struggles and limitations of young Nigerian women and is very deliberate about the struggles that are often dismissed and considered mundane.
Nigerian women are conditioned from a very young age to express themselves only within the confines of what appeals to the Nigerian patriarchal society. Through a constant reinforcement of this harmful belief system everywhere—at home, school, religious gatherings and the workplace—women internalise it and tether their lives to it. Unlearning this level of indoctrination and conditioning is difficult and often many women succumb to it due to a lack of community support and the right knowledge to cause a mindset shift and a thorough reorientation.
At TUWI, we intend to reach young Nigerian women and girls aged 13-25 and not only bridge this knowledge gap but hold the hands of those who want to begin and sustain their journey to finding themselves and becoming Unbound. By leveraging various online platforms, our goal is to address the gendered struggles of the whole woman—social, political, financial, mental, sexual and otherwise by:
1. Creating a safe space for interactive sessions for women to discuss their struggles, recognise their biases and interrogate their choices.
2. Forming a feminist community and support group for young women and girls to meet like-minds, have fun, be there for each other and have a sense of belonging.
3. Hosting sensitization campaigns on harmful, discriminative and misogynistic practices in Nigeria such as rape culture, female genital mutilation, sexual and gender-based violence, slut shaming, body shaming etc.
4. Teaching young women to build self-awareness, and confidence and to unlearn shame about their mental health, bodies and sexuality.
5. Writing articles and leading dialogue on topics that will deconstruct gender roles and inspire women to aspire and aim for more.
About the Millennium Fellow
Chinyere Ama-Oji is a brilliant and ardent Writer, Intersectional Feminist, Public Speaker and Organiser. She is currently a medical student and serves with her Medical Students' Association at local and national levels. Additionally, she is a member of Rotary International and a leader in her campus club, The Rotaract Club Of NAUTH. Through these groups and other volunteer programs, she has contributed to her passions for Women's Liberation, Mental Health Advocacy, Capacity Building, Public Health, Climate Action and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights through Sensitization Campaigns, Outreaches and Donations.
From a young age, Chinyere became hyperaware of how deeply patriarchal and misogynistic the society is and this fuelled her passion for Women's Rights and Liberation. She has since committed to writing, leading conversations and contributing to advocacies that reorient women and girls, disrupt the patriarchy, educate on the fight for gender equality and provide aid for women and girls.
She aspires to work in professional spaces at the intersections of Gender, Business, Medicine and Activism. Ultimately, her goal is to help revolutionize the lived experience of being a Nigerian woman and to leave the world more equitable than she met it.
