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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 ERRI MIKAELA GARCIA TAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR 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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" I believe that being a Millennium Fellow will offer me unique opportunities to gain more knowledge and skills that will aid me in pursuing initiatives that can drive equitable development in the community. "

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

Erri Mikaela Tan is a senior Development Studies student from Ateneo de Manila University, with a passion for good governance, human rights, and sustainable communities. Actively involved in various projects during her university life, she has shown a strong commitment to creating initiatives that emphasize the rights of marginalized groups amidst socio political challenges. Erri dreams of contributing positive change to the Philippines by engaging in grassroots projects that promote sustainable and equitable development. Her ultimate goal is to drive meaningful, community-centered development that benefits all sectors of society, ensuring a brighter future for the nation.

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