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 IBUKUNOLUWA OMOTAYO OSHINOWO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Babcock University Ilishan Remo | Ilishan Remo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 1, SDG 5, SDG 17 & UNAI 3
" The journey toward achieving quality inclusive education is a long one and cannot be undertaken alone. It requires diligent, dedicated change-makers to create meaningful impact. As a Millennium Fellow, I am confident in the support I will receive and excited to learn new ways to advance my goals while engaging in like-minded initiatives. The connections I make and the knowledge I gain will fuel my commitment to achieving results aligned with the U.N. SDGs and UNAI principles. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Literateall
For the most populated African country and 6th most populated country in the world, the ratio of illiteracy is too high to be ignored. Additionally, the right to education is one that has been trampled upon with indifference. This is what birth my passion for education, most particularly Early Childhood Education. Project LiterateAll focuses on the simple people who make up the community as grassroot level. The women who sell at the market, children who have been condemned to hawking and menial jobs for survival, men who had to shoulder responsibilities too advanced for their age and lost opportunities to be literate and the people who were never presented with an opportunity. All people. Although this project is still at the idea stage, I see literacy/education centres where anyone can walk into and after a few weeks, come out better. Centres well-equipped with libraries and patient instructors. This project will prove the importance of education and how much it can improve a person's quality of life and the society to which they belong at large. Less children given to vices and less small and medium enterprises owners being swindled by those who prey on the illiterate.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ibukunoluwa Oshinowo is a determined medical student of Babcock University (Nigeria) with a bachelor's in Human Anatomy. She was born in the northern region of Nigeria, resides in the southwestern region and has travelled across various states in the country allowing her to observe first-hand the effect of poor education and illiteracy on families and communities at large.
Ibukunoluwa possesses an enthusiastic inquisitiveness, which drives her passion for learning and its application, as well as the goal to make education accessible to people at the grassroots level of communities. With a family background of educators and educationists, Ibukunoluwa encountered the fight against illiteracy at a very young age. She has partnered with like-minded individuals and volunteered with organisations involved in social impact projects.
She aims to continue to advocate for quality inclusive education and the need for literacy and contribute to the actualization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
