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 MUBARAK AKOREDE ABDULSALAM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Federal University of Technology Minna | Minna, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 6 & UNAI 3
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it gives me the platform to transform my passion for education, agriculture, and infrastructure into real community impact. By collaborating with diverse change makers, I hope to strengthen my skills, expand my reach, and align my projects with the UNAI principles and SDGs, ensuring sustainable growth and lasting social change. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Hygiene for Better Health
This project promotes hygiene and environmental cleanliness through a one-day community outreach. The team will clean key areas of the community, engage shop owners and households with brief talks on personal hygiene, safe waste disposal, and the health benefits of a clean environment. To support practical action, sanitizers and soaps will be distributed to at least 50 shops and households. The sensitization will also highlight how good hygiene reduces infections and helps prevent antimicrobial resistance (AMR), combining direct action with education for lasting impact.
Project Goal
By the conclusion of the campaign, the project aims to have directly reached at least 100 community members through sensitization efforts conducted during the outreach. Additionally, at least 50 shops and households will receive sanitizers and soaps to promote sustained hygiene practices. The project will leave behind a visible improvement in the community environment while equipping individuals with practical knowledge and resources to maintain hygiene, thereby contributing to healthier living conditions and reducing the risk of preventable diseases.
About the Millennium Fellow
Abdulsalam Mubarak Akorede is a dedicated, impactful, bright, young, and globally competitive civil engineering student at the Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria. He was born in the southern part of Nigeria and is currently studying in the north central part of the country. For as long as he his strong and alive, Mubarak has always been passionate about his advocacy for quality education, infrastructure, and modern agriculture development doing this out of love for change. This drive and ardour translated itself from Mubarak’s experiences in the international community and his continuous dedication to social action. Throughout his secondary school year and currently in his university years, he has successfully organised various educational, advocacy, and enlightenment events, which taught him outstanding leadership and plans to continue in the future. Mubarak forever stands in contributing to the United Nations' sustainable goals.
