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 LOTACHI SOPHIA OBODO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Nigeria Nsukka | Nsukka, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 15 & UNAI 8
" Making the environment better has always been a dream of mine and though I have been able to achieve that to a reasonable extent in my local community, Millennium Fellowship presents me with yet another opportunity to do even more. By doing all of this, I believe I would have made a significant impact in keeping the environment safe for the coming generations. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Save Planet Earth!
Save Planet Earth! is an initiative that aims to curb the negative effects of human actions on the environment in Nsukka through sensitization and education of its inhabitants. Nsukka can be described as a semi-urban city where in a bid for development, deforestation is encouraged and people have no knowledge of the negative effects of plastics to the environment. "Tomorrow will sort itself", this has become a common phrase where sensitization about environmental sustainability is concerned meaning that nobody really stops to think about how their present actions can affect future generations. This problem can partly be attributed to ignorance. Most people, for example, probably don't know that the oxygen we inhale is gotten from the trees they fell constantly without replacement. Project "Save Planet Earth!" Therefore aims to correct the false narrative about "Tomorrow sorting itself" and teach people that the actions they engage in today will have effects on the environment tomorrow and it's now up to us to make sure that those actions are sustainable in order to bring about positive effects on the environment tomorrow.
About the Millennium Fellow
Obodo Lotachi Sophia is a 300 level student of the university of Nigeria Nsukka. She was born in and resides at Enugu state, Nigeria - a country whose reliance on fossil fuels as a main stream of revenue and source of energy. This prompted her decision to study economics at the prestigious university in order to have a chance to encourage sustainability by policy analysis and research. She has young and vibrant energy directed towards making the world a better place. She has demonstrated this through the several environmental outreaches that she has organized and participated in. Lotachi believes that the Millennium Fellowship would provide her the platform to achieve much more
