ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT YVETTE UWIMANA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
African Leadership University | Kigali, Rwanda | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 1
" The desire to become a Millennium Fellow is justified by my expectations to connect, learn from, and discover outstanding talents through this program. I believe that being part of the Millennium Fellowship program promises to add more value to my experience and competencies. I hope to boost my leadership and critical thinking skills that the world needs the most. In addition to learning from my peers and colleagues, I expect this will be an excellent opportunity to contribute to their growth. As an ambitious young lady with meaningful passion, I have got so much to offer and so many testimonies to share. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Soma Initiative Project
The Soma Initiative project envisions a society where every child can access education. The Soma Initiative focuses on less privileged populations' financial barriers to education. The principal objective is to provide struggling students with the necessities they need to fulfill their educational aspirations. We identified that in our home countries, many families struggle to keep up with supporting their children in school. Therefore, we put our hands together to help those in need.
About the Millennium Fellow
Yvette Uwimana is a self-motivated young female whose passion aligns with anything about lifting herself and other underprivileged humans out of their shells. Yvette was born and raised in Burundi and is currently undertaking International Business and Trade at the African Leadership University, Rwanda. If Yvette had all the power worldwide, diversity could never be counted on to engender discrimination. Instead, a tool to accelerate sustainable creativity. Yvette will never close her eyes when her help can solve someone's issue. She identifies herself as an entrepreneur who aspires to make a meaningful impact on her community and the world. To efficiently achieve her goals, Yvette has worked hard toward her career goals and is even hungry for more. With ending poverty goal at heart, Yvette is eager to sharpen her business-doing, economic autonomy, and critical thinking competencies to achieve more promising projects back in her home country.