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 KATERINA PAUL KARU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Kenyatta University | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" I'm so excited to be the Millennium Fellow because it will lead to aquisition of skills and knowledge, such as creativity and critical thinking. I will be able to solve problems in the school set up and my community at large in line with the sustainable Development goals. Millennium Fellowship will leads to interaction,I will get to learn so many unique thinks because the group is diverse. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: AKILI SAWA
Akili Sawa is a mental health project that helps the youth in universities and unemployed persons under age 30 to manage their mental health. More than 50 percent of the youth in Kenya are depressed due to various factors including lack of basic needs, and unemployment. The project seems to test user mental health using a web application (leveraging tech for the good of everyone, mentally). The diagnosis made by the app should then give recommendations to the users on how to mitigate their mental health issues.
About the Millennium Fellow
Katerina Paul is a brilliant and hardworking Gender and Development student at Kenyatta University main Campus. Katerina was born in South Sudan and flew to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya while a todler due to continues conflict in her country. Katerina aspires to be a human right activist and at the same time aspire to create sustainable change to the Refugee women and teenagers. During her holidays Katerina organized forums to advice women and teenagers on matters of Sexual and reproductive health and drug and substance abuse. During the three months holiday Katerina take the initiative to lead the discussion forums organized by the international court of justice to make the refugees women voices count in the peace process of South Sudan. Katerina's hope is to create social justice in the Refugee camp and in her country of origin and take role of leadership and governance so as to achieve peace in her war torn country because Katerina believe women in leadership and Governance has brought about peace and reconciliation and gender equality as the sustainable Development goals.
