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 VANGARBA AARON LEZEZE , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Federal University of Lafia | Lafia, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" Welfare and building self-confidence (Good self esteem) amongst young ladies is the major drive to my project. I strongly believe when you educate a girl you're educating a nation. Being part of the Millennium Fellowship will help shape my raw zeal and knowledge ;also by that ,guiding in accordance with the UNAI and SDG goals ,giving me a better chance to reach out to ad much people I am to reach out to concerning this project. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: PROMOTING MENSTRUAL HEALTH BREAKING THE STIGMA
My project is primarily aimed at eliminating the stigma around menstruation and encouraging good menstrual hygiene amongst ladies. This project focuses on; (1) Normalising menstruation_ this can be done by educating young ladies and also the general public on the biology of menstruation I.e opening their minds to understand that menstruation is a natural occurrence in every woman which is not something to be ashamed of. It also aims at breaking menstrual taboos as many cultures and traditional has their negative views of menstruation which are mostly not in favour of ladies. This creates a stigma causing mental and emotional distress. (2) Empowerment through education..Educating young ladies and the general public on the importance of menstrual hygiene. Good menstrual hygiene is a very important aspect in women general health. We will be encouraging practices such as ;using the right sanitary product such as the ones that are absorbent, comfortable, sterile and without harsh chemicals. Encouraging ladies to change their sanitary products regularly to prevent leakage and infections. Encouraging ladies to wash hands before and after handling sanitary products and maintaining genital hygiene to prevent infections. This basically is my dream and passion.
About the Millennium Fellow
Vangarba Aaron Lezeze is an optimistic student of the faculty of medical Laboratory science ,Federal University of Lafia. He was was born in Akwanga ,his local government area,but moved to keffi by his parents at age one. In keffi, he obtained his first school leaving certificate from Babtist Staff school keffi,Senior secondary school certificate at Government Secondary school,Army barrack keffi,and now schooling at Federal University of Lafia. Aaron lives with his parents and five siblings (one brother and four sisters).
The wellbeing of his siblings especially his sisters became a major factor that drove Aaron's zeal for humanity as a whole..
He aims at improving welfare, especially in the area of health.I recently joined The dearest teen initiative community(a community aimed at supporting teenagers in several ways).
Millennium Fellowship will hopefully be a platform for Aaron to sensitize girls and the general public on health, especially menstrual health for girls. Aaron is dedicated to providing vital information and support for the girl child .
