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 HAIRAT OMOTOYOSI BALOGUN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Obafemi Awolowo University | Ife, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 9
" I have always been passionate about acquiring knowledge for as long as I can remember. To me, the knowledge gotten from the four walls of a classroom are not adequate in sustaining an individual – one must seek knowledge in their surroundings, amidst friends and through lifting the next person who seem hopeless.
The Millennium Fellowship is the perfect platform for me to extend mental aid to people whose hopes are latent. It aligns with the SDGs which is something I'm working towards. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: I Read, I Matter
This project is an initiative that is meant to be an eye-opener for children around the Ile-Ife area. It will teach them that they can achieve whatever they set their mind to, regardless of societal constraints. During the course of this programme, I plan to collaborate with other people — organising seminars in secondary schools mostly — to reintroduce and elevate the reading culture amongst teenagers. These students would be taught the importance of reading and staying informed in a society that is driven rapidly by information. One of the ways to make this a success is by donating used books to schools thereby promoting quality education in the society. For each outreach programme, we will offer writing classes to interested students to teach them the basics of the art of expression. In all, it is an idea that would bring immense change to the communities I plan to reach.
About the Millennium Fellow
Hairat Balogun is currently a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, studying Education and English Language. She is a Nigerian from Lagos who enjoys reading, research and acquiring knowledge from a myriad of sources. Hairat holds the position of the editor-in-chief in her local press organisation, InFocus News Agency, where she contributes positively to the fight for press freedom.
