ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.

UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT MIMIDOO VICTORIA ATUME, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Afe Babalola University Ido | Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3, UNAI 9

" The Millennium Fellowship presents an opportunity to interact and learn from innovative and brilliant fellows around the globe working on similar and different social impact causes. In addition, the Millennium Fellowship will enable me improve on my leadership and team management skills. These skills are needed to efficiently and effectively deliver my “curbing the sugar menace” project and will come in handy as I go further in my medical career. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Curbing The Sugar Menace
The Project is titled Curbing the sugar menace.The sugar menace is coined from one the most common non- communicable diseases- Diabetes Mellitus. Mellitus means sugar or sweet. Diabetes Mellitus is a disease that accounts for 3.7- 5 million deaths per year and so, it is a menace to society. About 1 out of 17 people are living with diabetes mellitus in Nigeria and a good number of them are left undiagnosed of this disease. Most of them tend to present late in the health centres with chronic complications that end up leading to permanent disabilities which could have been prevented if the disease had been diagnosed promptly and controlled. We cannot neglect the fact that lack of income to purchase necessary medications also contributes to this prevalence, ignorance also plays a huge factor. Our project centered on curbing this menace by using primordial, primary and secondary preventive measures such as 1.Health education: We reached out to the community around us and educating them on risk factors, signs and symptoms of diabetes mellitus. 2. Screening and early diagnosis.: We carried out free blood glucose tests on World diabetes Day and referred those positive for Diabetes Mellitus to an Endocrinologist for further management and screening tests.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mimidoo Atume is a highly driven 5th year medical student at Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti ,Nigeria. Mimidoo is passionate about identifying and providing solutions to public health challenges facing women and children and developing countries. Mimidoo also has an interest in patient care and personal development, her goal is to ensure the practice of medicine makes a person mentally, physically, socially and emotionally well. Through the ‘Curbing the Sugar menace’ project, she aims to promote preventive medicine concerning diabetes mellitus and its complications in Ekiti state and then nationwide. Upon completion of her medical degree, her mission is to promote sustainable development goals in her practice. In her free time, Mimidoo loves to read and write. She runs a faith based blog called Ken iti na.








