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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 NICA MERIEL BASTO GABITO, 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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" "The opportunity to be a Millennium Fellow is a chance to enhance my skills and competencies to better serve marginalized communities. Being part of this fellowship and receiving mentorship from esteemed individuals and institutions will empower me to amplify my advocacy for social justice, particularly for girls and women. I am confident that, alongside like-minded individuals who share the same goals and passion, we can achieve meaningful change." "

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

Nica Gabito is a passionate 4th-year Development Studies student at Ateneo de Manila University, specializing in Development and the Law. With a focus on bridging poverty and injustice, she advocates for social justice and good governance. Her experience as a student journalist fueled her commitment to these causes. An advocate for women’s empowerment and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Nica also actively engages in research and volunteer work to serve underserved women and marginalized communities. She aspires to continue this work after graduation and empower women in urban and rural poor communities.

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