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 OGWAL DAVID KIZITO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Uganda Christian University | Kampala, Uganda | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 6
" Quelling gender based and domestic violence in northern uganda. Its like a war zone. The male fighting for dominance, the female trying to uphold morality. The children, not part of the story. With Millennium Fellowship , the end goal of equality can be achieved. It's not a day dream but rather absolute faith in creating a difference "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Gender Discrimination in Northern Uganda
sentizing the widows and orphans on their rights to legally inherit and benefit from the estate of their late husbands. This is not the position in the remote areas of northern uganda where women especially widows without male heirs have suffered the burden of beats in the chauvinistic society.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ogwal David Kizito is an ambitious student. Having been raised from Northern uganda, he has witnessed alot of discrimination from the society where male chauvinism dominates. He grew up knowing that women have assumed the burden of beasts in the society. They are not allowed to own land, they're victims of inherence, they only makes sense if they have male first-borns.
Now with the strike of covid 19, women have swallowed regrets, their rights violated, mental health at stake, domestic violence took shape.
"It is very bsurd to see our mothers go through all these"and
