ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT FERDINAND LOWANOU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
University of Abomey-Calavi | Abomey-Calavi, Benin | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 9
Millennium Fellowship Project: Zero Plastic Waste on Campus
Zero Plastic waste on campus is a group project of our cohort that we choose to give birth to in other to improve the study condition of all the students on our university and mainly to clean our campus and help keep it clean by calling all the students of our university to action to cancel plastic waste pollution on our campus. In fact, many sites at our university had become a geographic point to throw rubbish, mainly those in plastic. And this has become a very big problem because of the bad management of these rubbish on our campus and the short distance that separates them from the commercial centers where most of the food eaten is sold in our university.
The main activities of this project are to organize one or more than one sensitization session(s) to present to our fellows.
First step:
Awareness-raising via social networks aimed at communicative lobbying of our networks by writing content and inviting friends to do the same.
Second step:
As we were looking for some sponsors, we came across the Giving Back circle of the Mastercard foundation scholars, and we decide to join them in their idea to organize a cleaning day. We will collaborate with them to achieve our goal of a zero plastic waste on campus.
The SDGs that we are going to meet are:
SDG3: Good health and well-being
SDG11: Sustainable cities and communities
SDG15: Life on Land
About the Millennium Fellow
Ferdinand LOWANOU (Benin), holder of a scientific baccalaureate, he is currently at the end of the training of the professional license cycle at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences in the specialty Science and Techniques of Animal Production. Leader of a group of students who set up a pig breeding project on the Faculty pig farm, Ferdinand is a respectful, dynamic, hardworking, motivated, curious and honest young man. He likes to help people around him and likes to share his experiences with others. Ferdinand loves travelling, music, football and his career interests lie in animal husbandry and especially pig farming.