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 YU YEE TING, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong, China | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" "He who has a WHY to live can bear almost any how." Removing social stigma is hard as it involve altering people's longstanding perspective. Yet I believe I can a complete the goal or work on it due to the vision I hold appoint myself. Together with all the Millennium Fellows working on our aspirations, I feel the strength in contributing my part to the world. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Mental Connect
Mental Connect is an initiative working on SDG goal 3, in particular to alleviate social stigma towards people with mental health issue. In Hong Kong, the healthcare system is adopting the recovery model, integrating people with mental health illness to the community. Yet, public education on mental illness is inadequate, resulting in labelling of people in recovery (PIR). For instance, public may consider PIR as “crazy” , “losing their mind” or “unable to communicate with”. In light of the social stigma, Mental With You targets on addressing the bias of youth towards PIR with positive experience learning. Youth can in turn be the drive in educating the public with correct perception towards mental illness.
About the Millennium Fellow
Yu Yee Ting is a versatile and passionate occupational therapy student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she has been dedicated in driving social changes and creating a better society. With her interest in healthcare, she is particularly engaged in shaping a healthier community with everyone, be it disabled, or abled, can attain the state of wellbeing. Once witnessed the difficulty of mental distabled people intergrating to the community, she is dedicated in alleviating social stigma, especially among the youth with her aspiration that every individual can live a meaningful life, not merely surviving with own conditions, taking the SDG goal 3 into practice.
