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 FAVOUR USENOBONG THOMPSON, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Uyo | Uyo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 6 & UNAI 6
" I am so excited to be a Millennium Fellow because I am driven by unquenchable desire to make a change,a positive and long lasting impact to the lives of individuals living within my community and to help eradicate the day to day health challenges they battle with, mostly due to ignorance. With Millennium Fellowship giving me the platform and helping hands, the. sky is my starting point with regards to the achievement of this goal of mine. So help me God. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: CLEAN and ACCESSIBLE WATER SUPPLY for ALL
One of the greatest problems here in my local
community is the lack of clean drinkable water
that's safe and healthy for consumption. Water
supply isn't readily available and when available,it is sold at exorbitant rates, and the location is
far. Many at times, people in the community just
depend on rain water. Rain water is used for
bathing, cooking, washing of hands and so on.
Free water outlets from the government are rare and the ones available haven't supplied water for decades now. Due to the frequent use of rain
water and the purchased water, which at times is not that healthy for consumption, water borne
diseases such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea have skyrocketed in the community. This is
pretty bad and my project aims to put an end to
this suffering by drawing the attention of NGOs,
the Nigeria Delta Development Commission and
the State Ministry for Water Resources to this
poor predicament. I also aim to raise funds, with
the help of my campaign team to purchase and
distribute free bottled water to as many households as possible. And to also establish several
free water outlets depending on the funds raised.
About the Millennium Fellow
Favour Usenobong Thompson is a young versatile prodigy and lover of education currently studying medicine at the University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. He was born in Uyo, the state capital of Akwa Ibom State and presently resides in the province - Idu Uruan, Uruan Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. Asides from from being a medical student, he owns the enterprise - Spark's Conglomerate, a consolidation of multi corporate entities specialized in the foreign and domestic importation of a wide variety of of goods and services to Akwa Ibom State, and the authorized printing of national identity cards. Favour has always been a health enthusiast right from high school. Saddened by the looming and seemingly ever increasing health predicaments in Nigeria and Africa as a whole; he has always sought for a way to ameliorate and eliminate these endemic health quagmires within his community among which include; malaria, typhoid, cholera, lasa fever, lack of proper and healthy drinking water supply and lack of proper environmental hygiene which have increased disease prevalence, and lack of proper enlightenment campaigns and symposiums especially in the rural areas where certain health conditions are still believed to be caused by the gods. It is this unquenchable passion to improve health and the standard of living that has led favour to study medicine and surgery in the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. As a medical student, Favour has engaged in several health volunteer services such as the malaria walk , HIV/ AIDS sensitization, fight against breast cancer and many others. He hopes to contribute to the long term remedy of all the present appalling health inadequacies and grievances within Africa and the world at large; in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Goals through the medical profession.
