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 MARIAM OLUWAJUWONLO ADEGBOLA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Lagos State University | Lagos, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 5
" Making is impact and leadership is something I reall love interest in. I have realise that to make impact or being a leader, start from where you are currently in. I have seen a lot of shirt coming that I really wish I can be a tool in changing this situation. This is opportunity to explore it. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Educate To Curb
The "Educate To Curb" project is an initiative aimed at contributing to break the chain of sexual assault and end the rape culture in Nigerian communities by educating teenagers on consent.
Why teenagers?
Teenagers are inqusitive people and if not fed with the right knowledge would be misled.
The adolescent years are the formative years of a person, you live with the knowledge of your formative years and these knowledge most likely would be your life long philosophy, we believe that if these Teenagers are properly taught about consent, boundaries and body autonomy would grow to understand the ask before proceeding, no means no and private space principles
What then is the correlation between consent and sexual assault?
Sexual assault is any sexual activity you do not or cannot give "consent" to. Our project seeks to equip teenagers (both male and female) with the knowledge and resources needed to create boundaries, understand consent and not be future perpetrators .
we aim to break sexual assault chains and end rape culture in our communities so the future generations would be safe.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mariam Adegbola is a 300-level student at Lagos State University, in the Department of Religions and Peace Studies. She is a certified public speaker, a spoken word poet, a compere, an SDG advocate, and an entrepreneur.
As a learned and certified public speaker who has undergone various training, she understands the importance of effective communication. She has had the opportunity to use her abilities in various gatherings, both within and outside her space, to advocate for global change and impact.
