ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.

UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT LA GRACE DIVINE IGIRUBUNTU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
African Leadership University Rwanda | Kigali, Rwanda | Advancing SDG 5, SDG 4 & UNAI 3

" I don't doubt that being part of the Millennium Fellowship will improve my skills and also help me gain new skills I will need in my journey as a changer maker and someone who is passionate in the empowerment of women and African education reform through effective policies development and implementations. Those skills I will improve and the new ones I will get will help me highly impact positively my community, particularly the Mahama refugee community and beyond aligning with the UNAI principles and SDGs. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Istrive Initiative
Istrive Initiative is a literacy and mentoring initiative aiming to inspire, teach, and train young refugee girls between 15 to 18 years old and shape them into a next generation of educated and entrepreneurial African women through providing education and career orientation and development support.
About the Millennium Fellow
La Grace Divine Igirubuntu is an impact-driven and self-motivated leader currently pursuing a bachelor degree in Entrepreneurial Leadership at the African Leadership University, campus Rwanda, and currently residing in Rwanda. She was born in Burundi and later moved with her family in Rwanda. For as long as she could remember she has been always passionate about policy and advocacy, specifically in education, women empowerment and job creation sectors. She believes that through driving change through education, can we create an equal and just society for everyone regardless of gender, race, nationality, or ethnicity. This drive translated itself from La Grace's experiences in the international community and her continuous dedication to social action. Throughout her highschool and the years she has been in college, she has successfully contributed and organized various community outreach events in schools, orphanages, hospitals and refugee camps, in various countries including burundi, Rwanda, and Ghana in partnership with various organizations, which through her outstanding leadership, she plans to do more in the future. La Grace aspires to be in a professional field where she can cultivate these advocacies further, provide her own contribution in the development of the United Nations' Sustainable Goals.











