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 OJELADE OLUWAPELUMI DEBORAH, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Afe Babalola University Ido | Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3, UNAI 9

" First and foremost, I'm very grateful for this very rare opportunity. Being selected to join this fellowship has really boosted my confidence and passion. I'm really excited that I'm now a Millennium Fellowship member because I will get to meet and network with like-minded people who share in my passion to spread medical knowledge and care to the community.
I believe that this fellowship would help me learn and provide the tools I would need to actualize my dreams of promoting health education to the people that I don't know. I'm also excited that this fellowship would also help me to learn more about the other social problems in our community and how I can, in my own little way, help out. Once again, I'm very grateful for this opportunity, and I can't wait to begin. "
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
Miss Oluwapelumi Ojelade Deborah is a bright, young, and passionate 500-level medical student studying at Afe Babalola University. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and is currently studying in Ekiti State Nigeria; for as long as she can remember, Pelumi has always been passionate about public health and awareness. Throughout her high school and currently in her university years, she has passionately volunteered in various medical outreaches, and she plans to organise her own in the future. She is currently the General secretary of the Nigerian Medical Student Association South West Public Health and Advocacy team. Pelumi aspires to be in a professional field where she can cultivate these advocacies further and provide her own contribution to the development of the United Nations' sustainable goals.











