ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2018
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2018, students applied to join the Class of 2018 on 285 campuses across 57 nations. 30 campuses worldwide (just 11%) were selected to host the 402 Millennium Fellows in the global pilot this year.
The Class of 2018 is bold, innovative, and inclusive. During the Millennium Fellowship, Millennium Fellows' dedicated 48,785 hours and their 214 unique projects positively impacted the lives of 393,449 people worldwide.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT DENVER CHIKOKONYA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2018.
Ashesi University | Accra, Ghana | Advancing SDG 14 & UNAI 9
" Being a Millennium fellow gives the opportunity to learn from others as far as managing projects is concerned. This opportunity to grow helps me to fulfill my passion of changing other people's lives just as mine was changed. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: African Transformers
The African Transformers project’s team collects used bottles and makes dustbins which are then sold to the local villagers at affordable prices. They also teach simple recycling to primary school students. The team aims to have sold at least 20 bins and taught at least 3 schools by November.
About the Millennium Fellow
Denver Chikokonya is a twenty year old boy from the heart of Chiweshe communal lands, Mashonaland Central province-Zimbabwe. He spent the first eighteen years of his life in the same province, acquiring his primary education at St Alban’s primary school and secondary at St Albert’s High School. Being the first born in a family of three children, he believes he got the best support ever from his parents to get him where he is right now because they expect him to achieve great milestones in his academic and later career journey. He was the only lucky one in his family to attend a boarding school. Through hard work, determination, and perseverance, he appreciated his parents’ efforts by excelling in all his academic years. That same hard work paved the way for him into the Mastercard scholarship program at Ashesi. He loves helping other people to change their lives.