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 EMMANUEL BARNES, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
University of KwaZulu-Natal | Durban, South Africa | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
Millennium Fellowship Project: Mental Health and Peer Educator
Peer Education is used as a strategy to role model health-promoting behavior and to shift peer norms on HIV and AIDS and other health and social issues as support to curriculum implementation. Being a peer educator in the HIV/AIDS Campus Support Unit (CHASU) which is based at the University of KwaZulu Natal, we are all about promoting health and wellness among students on campus. Encouraging students to go for testing, and counseling, and try to live a healthy lifestyle which will bring a positive impact on their lives. In addition, the distribution of contraceptives, where students are able to prevent unplanned babies, diseases that are contaminated through sexual intercourse, and also various ways to practice safe sex. It is always good to assist and give constructive advice to students about taking care of their well-being and health. As peer educators, we also focus on gender-based violence awareness, making sure that the campus is gender-based violence-free or that it is a safe space for everyone. Also, going deeper, it is also important to try and minimize food insecurity on our campus. We can only do that by giving back to the students, by discovering those students who are financially needy, who can not make any end meets when it comes to nutritious food. Targeting orphans or those students who do not receive monthly allowances and those who do not have funding whilst coming from a poor background family.
About the Millennium Fellow
Emmanuel Barnes, studying for a Bachelor of Social Work, at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban in South Africa. Emmanuel is a peer educator who is passionate about the health and well-being of the students and community in general. His goal is to promote health and wellness in individuals' lives. Emmanuel is also passionate about working with the communities in South Africa to reduce food insecurity. He plans to demonstrate his leadership skills by making a positive impact on the campus by demonstrating and increasing awareness to benefit the campus and the community at large and he further plans to further his studies by doing Masters in Social Work.
