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 FAAIZAH OMOKEYEDE BANKOLE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Federal University of Health Sciences Ila-Orangun | Ila-Orangun, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 8, SDG 17, SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it offers a platform to transform my passion for service into sustainable impact, empowering me to learn, lead, and contribute meaningfully to my community and beyond. It gives me a chance to connect and network with like minds and join a community that's empowering and inspiring as well as giving me the opportunity to greatly impact people positively. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Healthy Minds, Brighter Futures
Healthy Minds, Brighter Futures is a two-day health and personal development program carried out at Abolarin College, Oke-Ila. The project focused on strengthening students’ health awareness, teaching practical life-saving skills such as CPR and choking response, and introducing them to sustainable agriculture and antimicrobial resistance. Students also learned income-generating skills like liquid soap and air freshener production, participated in creativity-based activities, and received career guidance. The program concluded with the launch of a School Health Club and the training of Health Ambassadors for sustainability.
About the Millennium Fellow
Faaizah Bankole is an intelligent, young medical student at the university of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State, Nigeria. She was born and bred in Ibadan, Oyo state and currently schools at Osun State. Faaizah has always been about making impact in people's lives. This zeal and drive for impact and positive change in lives have continued to inspire her to engage in numerous meaningful activities such as this. Currently in her college years, she has successfully organized and participated in various projects such as webinars, seminars, boot camps and the likes that help to impact and build people's lives positively. And through her outstanding leadership and visionary skills, she intends to continue doing so. She hopes to be help the community and impact the lives of people through her contributions to the development of the United Nations Sustainable Goals.
