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 SHITU RA'AYA , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Bayero University Old Site | Kano, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 2, SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 17 & UNAI 3
" I am profoundly driven by an unwavering commitment to serve, advocate, and contribute meaningfully to the advancement of equity, justice, and sustainable development. The Millennium Fellowship presents a transformative platform through which I can amplify my advocacy, deepen my engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals, and collaborate with a global network of visionary change makers. I am particularly eager to harness this opportunity to refine my leadership capacity, strengthen my strategic impact, and work toward a world where hunger, injustice, and systemic oppression are actively dismantled through informed, ethical, and community-centered action. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Businesses and Small-scale Enterprises Empowerment Initiative, BuSEI
Businesses and Small-scale Enterprises Empowerment Initiative, BuSEI is a not-for-profit youth-led project filled with the goals of zeroing extreme poverty and eradicating wicked hunger through training young men and women from disadvantaged background. Through this people everywhere can have the opportunity for a better life free from want, attend schools, and send their kids or themselves to school while living in a world of equality. We are doing this by training the participants on entrepreneurship skills such as tailoring catering makeup and other relevant financially sourcing ventures.
About the Millennium Fellow
Shitu Ra’aya is a passionate and visionary Doctor of pharmacy student at Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. He is a strong advocate for justice, zero hunger, and a world where no one is oppressed. Deeply committed to bringing about positive change economically, socially and politically. Ra’aya channels his leadership skills and academic drive into serving his communities, Nigeria, Africa, and the global society at large for more than a decade. His passion extends to promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in the areas of health, equality, and social justice. Through his continued efforts, he aims to help build a just, inclusive, and hunger-free world for all.
