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 UZOMA MADUAKONAM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Nigeria Nsukka | Nsukka, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" My colleagues in the faculty got into Millennium Fellowship and they posted it on LinkedIn. I saw the story and I knew that was something I wanted too. To create impact and be in a change maker, one SDG at a time. I want to reach communities, educate children and youths and hopefully inspire others while at it. I also hope to build on my public speaking and advocacy skills in order to improve my social impact and increase competence. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Protect your Eyes Project
The name of this project is Protect your eyes. We aim to focus on SDG 3: Good health and wellbeing. Acknowledging that many diseases of the eye usually do not come with severe signs, we aim to educate people on the different diseases of the eye and also the sensitization of the importance of eye test and eye care. We plan to extend the sensitization to eye allergies. Basically, we want to ensure that people are educated enough to make informed decisions on their eyes, not to easily dismiss a symptom of an eye defect, disease or allergy. Our target audience are secondary school students of a community school. We understand that eye diseases progress with age so we want to ensure we impact then at the age where impact will be most felt.
About the Millennium Fellow
Maduakonam Uzoma is a passionate, career driven pharmacy student at the University of Nigeria Nsukka(UNN). She was born in Nigeria, reside in Lagos and is currently studying in Enugu. As a little girl, she has always been interested in women's right, public health and advocacy. Coming into university has been rocket launch for her to volunteer for community outreaches, advocate for women's rights and public health campaigns on campus. Her interests also include debate clubs and getting mentored by many in public speaking. For now, her goal is to be a renowned public speaker, women's right advocate and a public health enthusiast in her own way of creating the ripple effect of inspiration she also received as a little girl.
