ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2020
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2020, 15,159 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2020 on 1,458 campuses across 135 nations. 80 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 1,000+ Millennium Fellows. The Class of 2020 is bold, innovative, and inclusive.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT IAN CHEGE NDURU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
Kenyatta University | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" I am excited to take part in the Millennium Fellowship Programme because it offers lots of opportunity to me as a young student to better the world and the people around me using the skills and knowledge that my area of study has given me. This programme is amazing since it seeks to give vision and direction to the energy and passion of youth and harness it to cause social impact through the goals and initiatives set forward by the United Nations. I look forward also to the connections across the entire world that the Millennium Fellowship can provide which can offer new perspectives and ideas that could apply to my local context. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Aftercare Initiative
The Aftercare Project aims is targeted at individuals in the community with Noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension and seeks to improve the follow-up management after they have been discharged from hospital as many such patients in my country are not able to access this care. The Aftercare Project seeks to create a database on which patients with various conditions may register their contact details according to their conditions and and which is then used to schedule appointments and regularly contact patients for follow up on their conditions.
This database will seek to register 20 new patients weekly from a local hospital and in the course of 3 months, accumulate a register of upto 250 individuals who can be helped with the follow up and management of their conditions.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ian Nduru is a young, energetic, medical student in his 4th year of study who is looking for ways in which he can apply the skills he is gaining through study to the improvement of his community and his society. Having a professional interest in health as his chosen career, he always sees the world from the perspective of not only fighting or correcting illness but also improving the wellness of those in the society around him.
