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 CHIKA PERPETUAL AMANNA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Ashesi University | Accra, Ghana | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 9 & UNAI 9
" I have been a victim of eye defect since I was 7 years. Coming from a rural community, I had very little opportunity to decent and affordable ear care specialist. Which caused me to be taken from one ophthalmologist to the other and getting back with varieties of eye drops. I can attest that being exposed to varieties of eye drops without significant improvement worsened my situation. With that, I came up with my project to tackle manual eye care diagnosis in rural areas. To that effect, I am here today as a Millennium Fellow to help bring this project to live and address SGD 3, providing good health and well-being for all. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sphygo
Sphygo is an eye defect dictator, which takes the form of a handheld microscope. The project aims to be a device that streamlines the eye screening process for both patients and ophthalmologists. On the side of patients, it helps to reduce the course of rigorous interrogations that they experience for the ophthalmologists to note the symptoms they experience. For the doctors, the device aims to assist in making accurate suggestions of the eye defect a patient suffers with just a scan and go ahead to suggest a suitable prescription for the eye defect. The device aims to eradicate the communication barrier patients experience in detailing their symptoms to the ophthalmologist. In turn, this assists the doctors to make informed decisions before prescription. 3 Good Health and Well-being UNAI 9: Sustainability
About the Millennium Fellow
The fact that I don't tremble at challenges, even when the path is unclear marvels me till date. My name is Chika Perpetual Amanna, a computer science student at Ashesi University Ghana majoring in Computer science in the graduating class of 2026.
When I graduated from high school from the computer craft studies unit, where I was taught about the components of the computer, how some parts operate introduced to the logic gates, I thought computer science as a major in university would be as fun as that experience were, where I enjoyed every bit could close my eyes and answer every of my computer class exams and still passed with the best grades so far in my class. I applied to Ashesi with the greatest enthusiasm ever, hoping to graduate with nothing less than a first class since all my courses are going to be strictly focused on my major but I received the most shocking experience.
It's true that I enjoy challenges, especially the ones that will get me doubting my capabilities. On the contrary, my first semester at Ashesi as an international student from Nigeria kept in nothing short of unexpected. It was a good experience though but I never saw them coming. What have kept me going has been my mindset. Always encouraging myself to do better regardless of the situation. Para-venture I attended an agility session somewhere in early September, I was invited by a lecturer whom I had a close relationship with.
