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 CHISOM GLORY UBAEKWENA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Babcock University | Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 3
" When an opportunity to create inclusive change and make a meaning impact is available, why miss it?
I am very excited to be part of a community who aligns with my passion in promoting the SDGs. As a youth who is very interested in the SDGs especially 4 and 5, I carry out various projects to promote them because my main goal is to make meaningful impact in the lives of those who lack quality education and are victims of gender inequality. Millennium Fellowship is the perfect opportunity to make meaningful change as it provides you with the guidance and resources to do so and you can share those goals with like-minded individuals. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: YouthXForge
YouthXForge as the name implies constitutes two things. Involvement of youths and Forging them. The forge can be interpreted to be the building and moulding youths with the various resources, opportunities and knowledge they need to be successful in their various fields.
YouthXForge is a youth-led platform which deals with exposing youths to opportunities like scholarships opportunities, internships, summits, job opportunities, etc that they might not even have access to. Not only that we center on educating youths on topics like gender equality (ensuring that everyone irrespective of their gender has access to this quality education and that everyone has the potential to be who they want to be), topics like mental awareness, and also helping youths in developing skills like public speaking, project management and any other skill they want to learn. This is done through hosting or seminars in various secondary schools, universities etc, hosting workshops, outreach, public speaking competitions, even online meetings and we invite guest speakers who can educate youths on these topics like CV writing, cover letter preparation, etc. These guests can be seen as role models thus youths tend to feel motivated by their speeches.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ubaekwena Chisom Glory is a young outstanding girl currently studying International Law and Diplomacy in Babcock University, Nigeria. She is fully passionate about the SDGs and also fully committed in promoting them wherever she finds herself. She is currently working for an NGO named Theirworld whose aim is also to promote the SDGs (specifically SDG 4) and aside from this she has actively participated in Model United Nations including the one hosted by her university. She is a bright youth who is very committed in making impact in the world around her and promoting inclusive change. She is known to be a very hardworking youth and to be a great public speaker. She is a voice that speaks for the underrepresented, for girls like her and for youths as a whole. She has attended conferences hosted by dignitaries not from her country and she has been awarded a certificate to commend her for a project presentation she did on the topic"the untapped potentials of youths in global affairs". Chisom Ubaekwena is a bright girl who never misses the opportunity to partake in promoting inclusive change hence, the reason she applied to the Millennium Fellowship. She is indeed grateful for being accepted and will put forth her best foot in achieving the goals of the Fellowship.
