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 OLUWASEGUN MAUYON ADEBOWALE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Lagos State University Ikeja | Ikeja, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because I will have the opportunity to learn and expand my understanding of social impact. This will make my project achievable and serve as the beginning of my journey toward greater impact in the future.
I do what I do because I am passionate about change-making and do not want the recurrence of the same challenges I have experienced. "
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
Oluwasegun Adebowale is a preclinical medical student at Lagos State University in Ikeja and he hails from Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria. As an active learner, he is passionate about purposeful learning. From his personal struggles, he has learned that the overwhelming information in medical school can lead students like him to only engage in surface learning. Inspired by Myles Munroe’s words that “purpose gives birth to hope and instils the passion to act,” he believes that understanding the “why” behind studying ignites interest, fosters commitment, and drives excellence—both academically and in terms of social impact, contributing to SDG 4.
