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 OLUWAKEMI MABEL IBITOYE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Obafemi Awolowo University | Ife, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 10 & UNAI 8
" I am excited to be part of the Millennium Fellow as I believe this would help sharpen and improve my leadership skills, also giving more room to work on and gain more hands on experience in the long run and also being part of those to foster or make awareness of the sustainable development goals.
It's huge! "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Occupational Therapy For All; Unlocking Independence.
Occupational Therapy for All: From Disability to Independence
This initiative addresses the problem of low awareness and limited access to Occupational Therapy (OT), which unfairly increases inequality against disabled people (SDG 10). My personal motivation is driven by seeing how little knowledge prevents people from achieving autonomy, affirming my goal to make the transformative power of OT widespread.
Our key activity to date was a targeted Community Awareness Outreach at a local secondary school, strategically conducted to commemorate World Occupational Therapy Day. This initiative educated over 165 individuals and resulted in the school implementing an initial referral system for students who need OT evaluation, establishing a vital foundation for early intervention.
We seek support from others to actively create and share more information on OT and to contribute resources toward direct action that helps people with disabilities. Our long-term vision is a society where disability is not an end-point, and every individual can achieve their fullest potential for self-reliance and dignity.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ibitoye Oluwakemi Mabel is a beautiful, young Nigerian girl, born in the city of Ondo state.
She has been one who has deep down been so passionate about physically challenged and those with disabilities .
As fate would have it, has an opportunity to study occupational therapy in the prestigious obafemi Awolowo University, it was a dream come through as she finally has a way to merge her passion and her dreams with her career. She hopes to work in the professional/ academic space, promoting the knowledge of her course and fulfilling her passion of helping the physically challenged and those with disabilities helping them see that there's so much ability even in their dysfunction and helping them adjust to living their lives, being independent even whilst living with their disabilities, there by improving their quality of life, contributing to the sustainable development goals and showing the world that truly the little we do is more.
