ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT PURITY WEKESA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Kirinyaga University | Kirinyaga, Kenya | Advancing SDG 2 & UNAI 9 | Emerging Technologist
Millennium Fellowship Project: Food Bora Initiative
Food Bora Initiative is a biofortification program aimed at using biofortified crops in the combat against hunger among lower households in a world of climate change.
About the Millennium Fellow
In the outskirts of a developing country in East Africa called Kenya, a young and ambitious Twenty one years old lady called Purity Wekesa aspires to create a combat hunger. As a fourth year student at Kirinyaga University pursuing a Bachelor Of Science In Medical Biotechnology, she has learnt that there is a lot more that meets the eye in the broad and diverse field. Being brought up in a low life household in the Western Suburbs of Kenya, she has been able to see and feel the effects of hunger on people when famine strikes the country due to the large number of people per household despite primitive agricultural techniques being used for crop cultuvation. Her focus lies mainly in biofortification of crops and food in agricultural practices to introduce nutrients in crops to help combat hidden hunger to which a large population of people mostly in pregnant women and children are victimized. As much as it is not a widely accepted field in the country, she aims to educate the citizens on matters regarding biofortification and its benefits despite there being concerns.