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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT KIKIOPE OLAJIDE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

Grambling State University | Louisiana, United States | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 4 & UNAI 3

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" Focus and compassion, fueled by hard work and thinking outside the box, are standards that help me achieve my goals. Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will grow these skills exponentially. The valuable skills I gain from the Millennium Fellowship will make my social impact on my home country and disability communities more tangible and aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am excited to improve my competence and leadership skill set by envisioning new ways of learning, creativity and collaboration "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Creating Brighter Futures for the Mentally Challenged

The goal of Creating Brighter Futures for the Mentally Challenged is to reach the lives and homes of mentally challenged children in Nigeria. This project bridges across almost five SDGs but ultimately the aim is to ensure good health –mental, physical and emotional– and well-being in the lives of challenged children. The first step of the plan is to create awareness through social media platforms and also raise funds through donations and pitching to sponsors to get educational materials, food, and medicine delivered to the homes of mentally challenged children. My plan is to distribute educational materials that are tailored towards steering the interest of the children to the fun embedded in education. Colorful books, shapes, and materials would be best serve this purpose. The educational materials would also be ones that allow the children start their educational journey without being in the four walls of a classroom. Although this goal is a long term vision that I planned to kickstart in medical school or after, an opportunity such as the Millennium Fellowship enables me to start at once. However, I plan to continue to refund my approach towards the development of this project as it evolves.

About the Millennium Fellow

Kikiope Olajide is a smart, young and focused pre-med student at the Grambling State University in Louisiana (United States). She was born and raised in Nigeria and currently reside in the United States; a testimony to her dedication and resilience in pursuing her medical school dream. For long as she could remember, Kikiope has always been passionate about her advocacies for justice, equity and accommodation for the rights of disabled people especially children. This passion translated itself from Kikiope's experiences in the her home country and her continuous dedication to social action even on her campus and through her volunteering activities in the Red Cross. Throughout her high school years and currently in her college years, she has successfully organized various philanthropic projects and social justice movements; which through her outstanding leadership, she plans to continue in the future. Kikiope aspires to be in a professional field where she can expand the reach of these initiatives, and provide her own contributions in the development of the United Nations' sustainable goals.

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