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 AMINAT JOY ANIFOWOSE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Lagos State University Ikeja | Ikeja, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" Adolescents are seeds for the future and empowering them with the right knowledge brings me joy. Being a Millennium Fellow excites me as it will help with my leadership, critical thinking and problem solving skills while connecting me with like minded individuals to achieve this mission. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Red Hope
Project Red Hope is a collective initiative of the LASUCOM Millennium Fellows, designed to address the challenge of blood shortage in Nigeria and to promote the culture of voluntary blood donation among individuals.
To achieve its objectives, Project Red Hope was executed in two major phases:
Phase 1 – Online Awareness Webinar:
We organized a virtual sensitization program during which a haematology specialist and the executive Secretary of the blood transfusion service in our state was invited to discuss the realities of blood scarcity in Nigeria, its consequences, and the vital role of consistent blood donation. The webinar also highlighted myths and misconceptions surrounding blood donation while encouraging participants to become regular voluntary donors.
Phase 2 – Blood Donation Drive:
Following the awareness phase, we organized a blood donation exercise in collaboration with the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service during which we were able to collect 88 pints of blood from student and staff of the college.
About the Millennium Fellow
Anifowose Joy Aminat is a fifth year Medicine and Surgery student at the Lagos State University College of Medicine. Born and raised in Lagos, she hails from Ile-Ife, Osun state. She is deeply committed to adolescent health and wellbeing with a strong focus on advocating for teenage sexual health and reproductive rights, believing that a nation's strength lies in the wellbeing of its youth. Joy has volunteered with various organizations and aspires to own an organization which educates adolescents and supports their health and wellbeing promoting SDG 3: Good health and wellbeing.
