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 MICHAEL WAIHENYA WAKHUNGU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Nairobi CAE | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 9
" For starters would want to be part of family that helped change the world. I believe I have ideas and skills that need to be aired/shared or developed to be effectively and efficiently helpful to others. I believe MCN will give me this platform and also one that allows me to learn and in turn better myself and raise around me. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Twende Shule Initiative
Twende Shule Initiative (TSI) is a Group Project initiated by the Millennium Fellowship Class of 2022 Fellows from the University of Nairobi CAE Cohort.
It is geared towards ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all and in turn achieve SDG 4 – Quality Education.
Due to the onset of the Free Primary Education Programme, 2003, public schools faced an unprecedented surge in enrolment numbers and thus overwhelming the current infrastructural facilities in these schools with a certain school having only four latrines serving over 600 pupils.
The project therefore strives to have built and upgraded education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.
Our aim to raise awareness through advocating for these reforms on the various social media platforms. We will engage with the public on these platforms, educated and share ideas, that will have the sole purpose of advancing this goal. We are aiming to gather a following of about a 500 people across all platforms during the Millenium Fellowship Period (August-December 2022).
We also aim to partner with the relevant stakeholders: National Government, Foundations and School Heads(Administration) to ensure that students and faculty altogether are able to access basic services: electricity, internet, computers, adapted infrastructure and materials for students with disabilities, basic drinking water, single-sex basic sanitation facilities and basic hand washing facilities.
Our main target are schools in marginalized poverty stricken areas. However, we are currently working to ensure public schools in our University’s vicinity have met the conditions. By 2025 we look forward to having a achieved at least 80% of the set goals.
About the Millennium Fellow
Michael Waihenya Wakhungu is a student at the University of Nairobi, pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Real Estate. He is hardworking, aimed at working smart, honest, an eager to learn Fellow, ready to tackle any challenge, a team builder and a leader having held certain leadership roles while in school.
He has been passionate on matters sustainability and provinding a sustainable future for our future generations. This can be achieved by ensuring that we have Sustainable Green Cities and Communities. Growing up in Nairobi and in Kenya general you get to experience the high cost of living and in this case the high cost of housing. Affordable housing is a key issue that every new government elected tries to tackle without much success and unavailability of land is a key aspect. The rise of slums consequently is as a result of poor planning and thus becomes difficult and expensive for resources such as water and sanitation to reach these areas and in the whole city in general.
Michael aims to be a future Real Estate developer that will pragmatically change the sector to suit the Sustainable Development Goals.
