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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 LILIAN CHIAMAKA OKECHUKWU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

University of Nigeria Nsukka | Nsukka, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6

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" There is ultimately so much wrong with the world, so much injustice and inequality surrounding us and it's heartbreaking. And the worst part? We seem not to care, to be desensitised , to accept that not much can be done to change the existing conditions in place are here to stay. I strongly believe we all have our parts to play in making the world a better place. There's power in our hands, in mass action, there's tremendous power when people are united and stand in one voice against/for something. All I try to do is to take the first step forward "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Fight Against AIDS

My project submission for the 2025 Millennium Campus Fellowship is called Fight Against AIDS, an independent project led by me, a 400l pharmacy student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka which attempts to confront the harsh realities presented to the country by the pause and restructuring of USAID funding and by extension, PEPFAR - a program affecting millions of lives of HIV/AIDS patients. This program aims to create awareness, to sensitise people on the very real, very urgent problem that we're

About the Millennium Fellow

Lilian Chiamaka Okechukwu is an innovative, passionate pharmacy student in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka with a special interest in making the world a better place. She has big dreams on tackling the world's biggest issues especially global poverty alleviation and gender inequality. But for now? She's focusing on solving the big problems one little contribution at a time

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