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 KERLY MAKURA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Zimbabwe | Harare, Zimbabwe | Advancing SDG 7 & UNAI 1
" Education and innovation are a lever to the success of the United Nation's 17 sustainable development goals aimed by 2030, a source of solutions to present day problem of humanity. Being part of the brilliant community of innovative and creative personnel, the Millennium Fellowship, excites me as I get to enhance my skills in these two cognitive areas as well as partnership building and community impacting skills. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Biokey Biogas Digestion
Biokey Biogas is a project aiming to convert biodegradable fraction of solid waste into useful resources biomethane and organic fertilizer. Through organic waste anaerobic digestion, macromolecules are broken down by bacteria into small valuable molecules like methane and ammonia which becomes ammonium a good fertilizer. Overally Biokey Biogas addresses the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 7 primarily.
About the Millennium Fellow
Kerly Makura is a young biomedical sciences student at the University of Zimbabwe aged 20. He is a hardworking ambitious gentleman born in a small agricultural town called Marondera, Zimbabwe. Being a citizen of such a town surrounded by peasants, Kerly has experienced rural life and its difficulties and has grown the passion to resolve some of the problems faced by rural citizens. Particularly problems in the use of firewood for fuel as well as its negative impact on the environment. In alignment with the United Nation's sustainable development goal 7 Kerly researched into biogas production as a solution which also encompasses goals 6, 9, 11, 12 and 13. Kerly wishes to contribute more towards United Nation's sustainable development goals in the future.
