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 PIO FRANCISCO BAUTISTA RAMIREZ, 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

" Community development and grassroots innovation are endeavours I wish to pursue further. As a Millennium Fellow, I now have a unique opportunity to work with the members of my university in order to ideate on, and implement a project that will lead to meaningful change. Change begins with people, and as a fellow, there will certainly be no shortage of opportunities to learn from, and work with amazing individuals. "
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
Pio Francisco B. Ramirez is an AB Development Studies student from the Philippines specializing in Urban and Regional Development. Combining his passion for design, project management, and research, he excels in integrating these skills to achieve impactful results in the intersection of communications, urban landscapes, and community development. His experience managing projects and logistics in student government and development organizations, alongside his design expertise with Figma, Photoshop, and GIMP, allows him to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and contribute meaningfully to impactful projects.








