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 OLOWONYO FAVOUR TIWATOPE , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology | Ogbomosho, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 5 & UNAI 9
" My passion for sustainability and community building drives both my studies and my work. Being part of the Millennium Fellowship will give me the opportunity to sharpen these skills through collaboration and shared learning. I believe the experience will make my social impact—especially in promoting responsible consumption and sanitation—more practical and aligned with the SDGs. I am excited to grow my capacity to create solutions that help young people and communities live more sustainably. "
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
Favour Olowonyo is a third-year Science Laboratory Technology student at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. She is passionate about sustainability, especially responsible consumption and sanitation, and how young people can play a role in building healthier communities. Growing up in Nigeria, she witnessed challenges with waste and sustainable living, which shaped her commitment to finding practical solutions that protect both people and the environment. Through her Millennium Fellowship project, she is working to raise awareness and inspire action around Sustainable Development Goal 12. After graduation, Favour hopes to combine her background in science with her experience in community building to design initiatives that create lasting social impact.
