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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ASHLEY NICOLE QUIRINO ABALOS, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.

Ateneo de Manila University | Quezon City, Philippines | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 1, SDG 4, SDG 5, SDG 17 & UNAI 2

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" What's not to be excited about when you have the incredible opportunity to learn from professionals and be surrounded by like-minded students who share the same vigor for implementing systematic and organized change for inclusive development? Beyond the chance to learn and collaborate with others, it’s also quite exciting to think about what new skills and experiences this experience will bring and how it may hopefully strengthen my performance in providing services to others. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Project SigLakas

Project SigLakas is a community-based health and development intervention co-created with ERDA Parents and ERDA Youth, a group of parent and youth beneficiaries of the Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA) Foundation, Inc. in Barangay 649, Port Area, Manila. SigLakas is a wordplay of the Filipino words “Sigla” and “Lakas” which means vigor and strength, of which the project aims to achieve with ERDA Parents and ERDA Youth. The goal of the project is to address the community’s health and rights-related concerns and aid in the internalization of human rights, especially the right to health. To achieve this, the students came up with 3 workshops that span across individual, team, and community levels reflecting the socio-ecological model of health. Each level aims to inform and capacitate participants on matters that affect and can contribute to the development of involved stakeholders at each level. The project was further aided by the UNODC’s Biophysical model which emphasizes viewing drug dependence from both a physical and psychological lens. Through integrating these models, Project SigLakas was able to operationalize long-existing public health models for a theoretically informed and sustainable community-based health intervention.

About the Millennium Fellow

Ashley Abalos is an inquisitive Development Studies undergraduate student at the Ateneo de Manila University. Born in the province and raised in the city, her observations with wealth disparities and inequalities fueled her advocacy for transparency, technological accessibility, and women's rights. These passions ultimately led her to take up her major, where she learned to create sustainable grassroots projects. Supplementing her academic training, she has also worked in organizations that focus on fundraising and advertising. Now, Ashley aims to apply her skills in learning how she can be of service towards bridging local and international development.

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