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 CHUKWU PRINCESS IHECHI , A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Nigeria Nsukka | Nsukka, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will be of great help to me as it will connect me with people with similar dreams, aspirations and purpose there by inciting a collaboration that will bring about positive massive impact on the society through joined efforts and insightful creativity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Students for Progress Initiative (SPI)
Overview of the Students for Progress Initiative (SPI) Following admission into the Millennium Fellowship Class of 2025, I, Chimezie Umeoka, as the group leader, and my single-person member, Princess Ihechi Chukwu, put into action our project tagged ‘Students for Progress Initiative’ (SPI). Our project idea arose from a problem which I noticed in our academic system. There are little to no major orientation programs or fellowships aimed at helping freshers, that is newly-admitted students, acclimatize to the rigours of academics. This creates a problem whereby most of them make mistakes at the early stage of their academic journey which sometimes leads to prolonged consequences. Our project is in alignment with the SDG 4. It aims to provide a kind of mentorship platform where these freshers are adequately informed and guided through certain post-admission processes like Hostel allocation, class schedules, course registration processes, academic tutorials e.t.c. Our initiative is impactful in that it helps the students adjust to the University system, staying informed and in bracing up for the rest of their academic journey.
About the Millennium Fellow
Princess Ihechi Chukwu is an excellent,young and strategic mechanical engineering student of the University of Nigeria Nsukka campus(UNN). She was born in Lagos, resides in Enugu and currently studying in Nsukka, Nigeria. Princess has always been passionate about bringing positive changes to the society at large and she believes that it could be achieved by enlightening the youths and teenagers , equipping them with the right mindset as they are the future. This passion is what moves her to be a part of many philanthropical activities around her, ranging from environmental sanitation to societal awareness programs. Princess desires to be in a professional field such as this one, so as to enable her to reach as many youths as possible, bringing about the positive changes that the world needs, and sustaining those changes .
