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 ERNEST WAMBUA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Passion, fueled by compassion, drive my work. Being a part of the Millennium
Fellowship will enhance these skills collaboratively. The skills I gain from the
Millennium Fellowship will make my social impact in my community more tangible and aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am excited to increase my anticipatory competence by envisioning new ways of learning and creativity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Lifting Angels
Lifting Angels is a collaborated effort from like minded leaders from my campus aiming to improve access to quality education and ease access to education to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It is a community outreach project where we try and reach out to children and teens in the slums and poor neighborhoods in our community and equip them with technical skills mostly computer literacy. We aim to aquire books and resources mostly from donations and well-wishers for the children and distribute them to schools in those areas. We also aim to tech them computer skills and also tech them how to create computer programs themselves. We also aim to create a hub/center where they can have access
to the internet and computers to build their own projects. This will also provide a safe haven for children who come from abusive homesteads. I believe that equiping them with these technical skills will help them become critical thinkers and creative which will help improve their living standards and it will also have an impact on the future generations.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ernest Wambua Mutisya AKA "Tech Ernie" is an ambitious, young and globally
competitive engineering student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. For as long as he could remember, Ernest has always been passionate about computer programming and trying to teach the young children from disadvantaged backgrounds this amazing skill. This drive and ardour translated itself from Ernest's experiences in the international community and his continuous dedication to provide access to education and skills. Currently while in college, he has successfully taught over 30 kids computer literacy skills and computer programming using volunteers and his own personal computer. He has successfully organized events and meetups where kids come and learn on the weekends and have fun building amazing structures and robots using Lego build kits. Ernest aspires to be in a professional field where she can inspire children to become technological leaders in their community, and provide his own contribution in the development of the United Nations’ Sustainable Goals.
