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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 ERIKA CELINE ESTOYA VILLANUEVA, 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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" Communication and Collaboration are key factors that inform most of my work, for it takes collective action and concerted efforts to successfully conduct sustainable projects. Along with my other Millennium Fellows, I believe that the Millennium Fellowship will equip me with the knowledge and skills to further my social impact in relation to not just realizing, but conscientiously actualizing the Sustainable Development Goals and UNAI Principles. Through the Millennium Fellowship, I am excited to be empowered so that I am able to help empower others as well. "

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

Erika Celine Villanueva is an ambitious, bright, and cheerful student taking up Development Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University. Driven by the desire to create and champion change, Erika is passionate about her advocacies for the rights of marginalized communities, especially for persons with disabilities. In Erika’s undertakings as a student and leader, she aims to significantly contribute to society by engaging in endeavors that aim to cultivate and advance sustainability. In the future, Erika hopes to pursue a career in law and development because she believes that these are avenues that can aid in achieving social justice.

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