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 OLOHI AMARACHI AMALI-ADEKWU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Babcock University | Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" True leadership combines vision, empathy, and action to create lasting social change. Through this fellowship, I hope to refine my leadership skills, learn from diverse change makers, and gain practical tools to turn ideas into sustainable impact. The knowledge and networks I build here will strengthen my work in mental health advocacy, cancer awareness, and gender-based violence prevention. MCN is more than a program to me, it's a launchpad for the kind of leader I aspire to be. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Roots & Restoration
Roots and restoration is a social impact project that promotes emotional healing and mental well-being by addressing the long-term effects of unhealed trauma and the pain we often carry. Many people grow up carrying invisible wounds from childhood experiences, family dysfunction, or neglect, which later manifest in their choices and relationships. Unfortunately, mental health is often stigmatized, and trauma remains unspoken and these harmful cycles are passed on.
Aligned with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), Roots and Restoration creates safe spaces for awareness, reflection, and healing through webinars, outreaches, and open conversations.
The project empowers individuals to understand their emotions, seek help without shame, and build healthier coping mechanisms. By breaking stigma and encouraging emotional literacy, Roots and Restoration fosters communities that value holistic wellness where healing the mind is seen as just as vital as healing the body.
About the Millennium Fellow
Olohi A. Amali-Adekwu a brilliant, young medical student who believes that healing people goes far beyond treating their bodies — it means mending minds, restoring hope, and helping entire communities thrive. She dreams of a nation where people are free from the weight of trauma and able to live, love, and function at their fullest potential.
Her work in cancer advocacy, gender-based violence prevention, and mental health awareness is not just a checklist of causes — it’s a personal mission. From organizing lively, interactive health outreaches to sparking uncomfortable but necessary conversations, Olohi has a knack for turning serious topics into movements people want to join.
She is powered by compassion, bold ideas, and the unwavering belief that she will do great things to make the world better — not someday, but starting now. Those who know her say she brings equal parts heart and strategy to her work… and that she’s living proof you can be deeply serious about change and shape a healthier, more equitable world.
