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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT BADA IFEOLUWAPO DORCAS , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

Obafemi Awolowo University | Ife, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 4 & UNAI 6

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" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it gives me the space to turn my ideas into impact while learning from people who care as much as I do. I do this work because I know change begins with ordinary people daring to act, and that the Fellowship will help me hone my anticipatory competence and confidence in the field I seek to make an impact in. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Art for health

"Art for Health is a project that was born out of a desire to see people take charge of their own mental health. It leverages the idea that creating art can be its own form of therapy, easing stress and offering catharsis to troubled people. The project focuses on SDGs 3 and 4, Good Health and Well-being and Quality Education, by introducing a helpful tool for health to communities and educating them on how they can use it to effectively better their mental health. The main art types used for the project include visual art and creative writing, especially poetry. We distributed writing and art supplies to a group of about 20 people, after discussing with them the power of art as a therapeutic tool. We gave them an open-ended prompt guided by their current emotions, which they were free to interpret as they liked. During the session, we also worked with individual participants, giving some pointers and insight. We also did a fun ""poetry pills"" side activity where we handwrote a few short poems, folded them into cubes and put them into pill bottles to be passed around. Quite a few people who participated admitted that they were touched by the poem they read, with some choosing to keep it even days after the event. At the end of the session, almost all participants had written or drawn something pertaining to their current feelings. Most of the participants came away feeling better, per their own admission, and stated that the exercise was a great way of channeling their emotions into a healthy outlet."

About the Millennium Fellow

Ifeoluwapo Bada is a young medical student at Obafemi Awolowo University. Since she was very young, she has had a burning passion for mental health awareness, especially focusing on bridging the gap between mental health services and the people who are in dire need of them. Her drive for contributing to a more mentally-healthy world has been further fueled by her own struggles with mental illness and the struggles she had witnessed in her immediate community. She aims to be a psychiatrist in the future, and to dedicate a good portion of her life to building pillars of mental health support in her community and showing those who are in a mental health crisis that they are not alone; help is real and available to everyone who asks for it.

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