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 GIFT AYOMIDE BABARINDE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology | Ogbomosho, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 5 & UNAI 9
" Passion and my past sufferings as a young girl served as sources of motivation for me to embark on the journey of bringing independence to every lady. The kind that gives no room for unhealthy relationships with the other gender which can lead to unwanted pregnancy. I am elated to be a Millennium Fellow because I will be able to gather the required skills and information needed to carry out my impact projects with UNAI principles and SDGs in mind. Accomplishing them and bringing freedom to every lady. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Flow Without Fear
Flow Without Fear is a project that targets adolescence/secondary school girls at rural communities or public secondary schools. It’s all about educating and helping girls in these underserved communities learn about their periods in a healthy, open way, and making sure they have what they need to manage them safely. Many girls miss school during their periods because they can’t afford pads or feel embarrassed about it. I want to solve this problem by organizing interactive and fun workshops, where we talk honestly about menstrual health, particularly the alarm symptoms that could be indicative of disease processes of female reproductive system; clear up common myths, and teach how to make reusable pads. We’ll also give out reusable pad kits and train some active students to keep the teaching going and provide them a means they could contact us even after the project ends. This project is in-line with SDGs (3 & 5).
About the Millennium Fellow
Babarinde Gift Ayomide is a 200 level preclinical medical student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State. She is also an indigene of the state. She has always desired to see a world where girls are equally empowered as boys. Her passion for ensuring the independence of the girl child and her displeasure in seeing young ladies suffer the impacts of unwanted pregnancy such as deadly abortions has made her more passionate about creating a foundation where girls are empowered early in life and taught their worth and how to stand tall in the society. Her foundation has held two amazing conferences treating the needs of the single girl child and how to help her attain them. Her hobbies are writing, reading and cooking, other times she acts or sings.
