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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 OLAITAN JOY DAMILOLA , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

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

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" As an artist and medical student, I have a passion for creativity and health advocacy. Being a Millennium Fellow will refine my skills in order to improve my community. I want to equip people to be knowledgeable about their health. And art is a great tool to improve health and educate people about their health. "

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

Olaitan Joy Damilola (Ravanjie) is a medical student researcher and artist from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
She believes in active engagement of the community as a cornerstone of health promotion and health education. In her time at university, she has actively engaged in health research, and volunteering in her community.
She plans to work with Millennium Fellowship to use art and health education as tools to improve the health of her community and the world at large.

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