ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT JULIEN DANHOSSOU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
University of Abomey-Calavi | Abomey-Calavi, Benin | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 9
Millennium Fellowship Project: Zero Plastic Waste on Campus
Zero Plastic waste on campus is a group project of our cohort that we choose to give birth to in other to improve the study condition of all the students on our university and mainly to clean our campus and help keep it clean by calling all the students of our university to action to cancel plastic waste pollution on our campus. In fact, many sites at our university had become a geographic point to throw rubbish, mainly those in plastic. And this has become a very big problem because of the bad management of these rubbish on our campus and the short distance that separates them from the commercial centers where most of the food eaten is sold in our university.
The main activities of this project are to organize one or more than one sensitization session(s) to present to our fellows.
First step:
Awareness-raising via social networks aimed at communicative lobbying of our networks by writing content and inviting friends to do the same.
Second step:
As we were looking for some sponsors, we came across the Giving Back circle of the Mastercard foundation scholars, and we decide to join them in their idea to organize a cleaning day. We will collaborate with them to achieve our goal of a zero plastic waste on campus.
The SDGs that we are going to meet are:
SDG3: Good health and well-being
SDG11: Sustainable cities and communities
SDG15: Life on Land
About the Millennium Fellow
Julien DANHOSSOU is student in Forest Planning and Natural Ressources Management at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences and a scholarship holder from the Mastercard Foundation at the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin). Very concerned about the well-being of rural communities, he invests in the development of Benin's orphan non-timber forest products to create jobs and improve the income of local communities. It is with this in mind that he has now become a resolution fellow following the creation of the start-up CAJU VALOR, the aim of which is to promote the cashew apple and spices and aromatic herbs to produce juices in order to improve the living conditions of actors in the cashew value chain in Benin. Very aware that leadership is a lever for him to create impact in his community, he continues to improve his skills in this regard. Thus, he held several positions of responsibility during his academic and para-academic studies, including the Scholars Council representative of the MasterCard Foundation, the coordinator of the Giving-back to community committee of MasterCard Foundation scholarship holders at Abomey-Calavi university.
Creative, curious and empathetic, he remains very concerned about the living conditions of his community.
