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 SOMTOCHUKWU JOHNMARTINS ILIEMENAM-EJIKE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Nigeria Enugu | Enugu, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Two friends, two sayings may summarize why I have decided and am excited to embark on this journey. One would say, do not aim for perfection on your first try or you would never start. The other would say, it is only in doing we become. I have in fact learnt so much from people and so much more am I looking forward to learn here at millennium as I have this stage. This is my stage, let me do this my way. If I do this right, perhaps I could break a smile from that face that has been weary, perhaps I'd give someone else the opportunity to stand on the stage such that on the days my strength and efforts fail me, the one who I have given the stage could still make make my Dad smile, could still in my stead, make the world smile. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Carpe scientia
Carpe Scientia! Go for Knowledge' (seize it!) is my way of getting together all the knowledge I gathered through Secondary school and University and presenting it to those who haven't spent that much time in life or who wouldn't have the same exposures as I, perhaps as a consequence of differences in specialty of study or environment or institution of study. It is I, clarifying myths in my area of expertise, telling them the opportunities available to them in various fields, basic things they should know about their health care, telling them what the world needs from them in return for housing them... They have to know!
About the Millennium Fellow
Somtochukwu Iliemenam-Ejike is just your typical example of a practical African child; from humble backgrounds, but now to humbling efforts at advocacy. He is Igbo, though born in Lagos, Nigeria where he also grew up. He is currently working towards an MBBS degree in Enugu, Nigeria at the University of Nigeria.
Somto has always believed himself to be a product of luck, yet he believes adequate information could be more securing of the future we desire, which every child should have. And with a mind that has a very low threshold to be aroused, finding interest in so much, in advocacy, research, language and otherwise, calls for more than a lone brain and a pair of hands to accomplish. It calls for the involvement of his community, one whose future is so much limited by how much they know. Now beyond school and community outreaches in his locality, whether on human health or environmental health or against poverty, perhaps more people with more localities would be sensitized expanding the horizon of his impact.
Somto though being a man of culture and prides in his first language being Igbo also is pleased with diversity. He is close to and actively working towards a B2 certificate in German and French.
