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 MERCY JEPKOECH KIBET, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Kenyatta University | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" I believe in persistency, consistency, teamwork in achieving goals. Being able to work and learn with Millennium Fellows will support these. With the dynamic world that evolves in technology, I believe being part of Millennium Fellows will make me utilize the skills to encourage general inclusion in society. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Tales without Borders
Tales without borders: Stories for mentorship.
This project is a collaboration with fellows taking the same Sdg 4 on quality education.
We are a youth led initiative from Kenyatta university main campus, who came up with an idea to help school going children from schools around to get their voices and to stand strong enough to embrace and to tell stories. We believe that through telling stories of ourselves and those of African heroes and heroines will enhance our ability to recall and also rekindle the spirit of readership wanting to get a touch/ a read on more stories looking forward to share the same with our peers. We are looking forward and aiming to work closely with schools in the shanty outskirts of town and in communities where kids have been doomed to believe that there is no good story that could come from their background.We aim at inspiring students through storytelling. Also collecting books from well-wishers and distributing them to this schools and making follow ups on the acceptance and the response from these pupils. By provision of this books we believe that it will boost their language eloquence Kiswahili/ English and with the requisite eloquence we are looking at an empowered story telling generation.We aim to have a plan to lay boundaries to the kind/ origin of books and stories that we proceed to give but given chance and opportunity we would like to grow from within and by these we would like as much as possible to tell indigenous stories as we believe that this way we will have promoted the intercultural understanding of our different communities right from the early ages of their growth, now and the prospects in the future. Through this we will have promoted our diverse cultures and also promoted the stories put to pen by our very own Kenyan bled authors. This therefore is an appeal to our authors to help us in advancing their literal worksWe want to have a sustainable culture of storytelling, something that will grow with the growing generation and not succumb to the dwindling culture of reading here in Kenya.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mercy Kibet is a student at Kenyatta University pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Special Needs Education. She is a goal oriented person who believes in the power of team work in accomplishing goals. An effective communicator and an advocate for all. Having experience in counselling and mentoring peers has made me have different perspectives in life. That I need to acquire certain skills for the development of my community. Mercy is passionate and dedicated towards achieving general inclusion of persons with disability in society. Her interest lies in community development, empowerment and mentorship. She engages with people during free time, go out on team building activities which encourage s right mental health. She really envisions to support the sustainable developmental goals.
