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 MINET NABILA GWANMESIA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Buea Campus A | Buea, Cameroon | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 2, SDG 4 & UNAI 9
" Innovation and sustainability are the cornerstones of my work. As a Millennium Fellow, I am eager to collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop innovative solutions that address pressing global challenges especially SDG 2 and 3. The skills I will obtain from the Millennium Fellowship will empower me to impact my community and solve the pertinent issues of post-harvest losses and poor healthy living. I am excited to begin this amazing journey as a Millennium fellow "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Educational Reformation Linking Food Security and Health
Title of Project: Educational Reformation Linking Food Security and Health.
Project Overview:
What problem are we addressing?:
When we make mention of career development, we are referring to lifelong process of learning, exploring, and advancing in a chosen field. Therefore, by building a career path, will require adequate and relevant information to be able to make proper decisions.
A holistic approach (New) behind Educational Reformation is that food security and good health must be compatible to every career path. Irrespective of one’s chosen career or field, he or she cannot do without food nor good health to be able to excel in that career. Despite diversity in careers, skills development towards advancing food security and good health should accompany career diversity.
How do we intend to solve this problem?
Based on the report from the Nationa Institute of Statistics “ 2nd Survey on the Monitoring of Public Expenditure and the Level of Recipients Satisfaction in the Education and Health Sectors in Cameroon (PETS2), on December, 2023 shows there are 1,013,667 students in the secondary education sector of Cameroon. This implies, 1,013,667 young students would be or are aspiring for diverse career paths. Educational Reformation will require that career orientation is needful for this students as they move to forms fives and and from upper sixth level to the university of the need to incorporate agricultural entrepreneurship skills in their chosen fields (career) if there is need is the will to combat the challenge of food security and good health. This holistic approach (New) will have a tremendous multiplier effect.
Skills development on food transformation will alleviate the challenge of post harvest waist and equally, the production of quality food void of spikes, will enhance good health within our communities and by so doing, this initiative will be enhancing SDG 2, which addresses on Zero Hunger and SDG 3, which addresses on Good Health and Wellbeing.
How will you measure your impact?:
Our impact shall be measured in terms of groups, clubs that shall be created in secondary schools and universities where a reformed curriculum shall be applied to orientate these students on the knowledge based environment where they can make informed decisions that will make them sustainable.
About the Millennium Fellow
Minet Nabila Gwanmesia is an aspiring Agricpreneur who was born in the town of Limbe, Cameroon. She studied at the University of Buea, where she did one year of biochemistry studies. Her passion for food and agriculture led to her venturing into the field of agriculture, where she is currently rounding up her four years of studies under the faculty of agriculture and veterinary medicine. During her early university days, she engaged in many volunteer programs such as the Good Deeds Day Network, kids for Peace and Bless Foundation, and the Make it Greener organization, which are in line with protecting the environment and encouraging Sustainability in agriculture. She has won several competitions for her faculty and was turned a fellow of the YALI West Africa training program cohort 50. She envisions having her own food processing company in the next 3 years. She's currently working on a project called the Resilient Food Network,k where she aims at solving 2 and 3 to promote good health and wellness, reduce food waste and post-harvest loss, and simultaneously educate Farmers on ways in which they can extend the shelf life of their crops.
