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 IRENE TAKYIWAH AYENSU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | Kumasi, Ghana | Advancing SDG 8, SDG 11 & UNAI 6
" " I am fueled by a passion to help fix societal problems while improving the lives of individuals who would volunteer to contribute to it. I am excited to be art of the Millennium Fellowship, as I anticipate a great improvement in my productivity and organisational skills. I hope to truly learn what it means to contribute to the lives of youth and the society around us." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: COMMUNITY CHAMPS
In Ghana today, people are only ready to offer their services in exchange for material or monetary benefits. This over the years has led to Ghana's slow development. The leaders of our nation unfortunately do not have enough funds to cover particular projects like regular community cleanup efforts, to even think about paying the individuals involved. This is where Community Champs comes in where we are changing the mindset of the Ghanaian youth towards hard work and volunteerism and helping them identify how this can help improve our communities. This project is about changing mindsets surrounding helping our societies develop, where everyone thinks it's the government's job. It's about getting young people excited to volunteer in ways that matters to their communities. Easy and flexible opportunities will be made for young people to volunteer in such as community cleanup efforts or working at the community garden or partnering with charity groups to work towards solving public issues. Community Champs will not be just about assigning tasks to youth but creating a change in an entire way of life and thought process, allowing the youth to help community and national development in their own way.
About the Millennium Fellow
Irene Takyiwah Ayensu is an intelligent, charismatic and indefatigable young lady who is a second year medical student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a prestigious university in Ghana. She was born in Manhyia a suburb of Kumasi in Ghana. However, she hails from a small and peaceful village, Assin - Nkran, in the Central Region of Ghana. Irene, true to her nature as a firstborn, has always volunteered or been chosen to lead in various projects as far as from he primary school days until now. During these periods, she observed that youth in her country are facing a major setback in work, employment as well as education and training. She observed the unwillingness of the youth to volunteer themselves to any societal activity. As such she has set herself on a mission, as a leader who has volunteered to her immediate society and beyond,to rescue the youth around her from redundancy and idleness and to use their youthful energy to contribute greatly to society.
