ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT PRECIOUS BARIKUMA AALO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Afe Babalola University Ado | Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 3
" I am driven by the belief that passion and adaptability can transform lives. The Millennium Fellowship offers me the chance to refine these qualities while working alongside other passionate peers. Through this experience, I aim to create meaningful change in schools and communities, ensuring my initiatives align with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I'm excited to expand my ability to envision and implement innovative, sustainable solutions. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: BrightHer-Lifesavers Initiative
Project Title: BrightHer-LifeSavers Initiative
Project Focus: Empowering women and girls through Health, Literacy, and Human Rights and Empowering Individuals with Life Saving Skills(CPR)
Project Overview
The BrightHer-LifeSavers Initiative aims to promote women’s health and empowerment through:
• Health Education: Menstrual hygiene, adequate nutrition, reproductive care, and maternal and child health.
• Life-Saving Skills: Training participants in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and other basic emergency response techniques.
Through these activities, we were able to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3, 4, and 5 — Good Health and Well-being, Quality Education, and Gender Equality.
About the Millennium Fellow
Aalo Precious Barikuma is a an exceptional, young and emerging competitive medical student at Afe Babalola University, Nigeria. He was born in Nigeria, currently resides there.
For as long as He can remember, Precious has been passionate about health quality, community education, and gender equity. That zeal grew from Precious’s experiences within the global community and his sustained commitment to clinical and community action.
Throughout his secondary school years and now during university, he has organized several charitable health initiatives and community medicine campaigns; through his remarkable leadership he intends to expand them. Precious aims to train as a physician-scientist, pursue an MD-PhD in infectious diseases and global health policy, and lead multicenter clinical research and cross-border mobile clinics to broaden access to care.
He plans to shape health policy at national and international levels, launch a nonprofit for community-based screening and training, and mentor emerging clinicians — turning his advocacy into measurable improvements in population health worldwide.
