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 SIMBARASHE BANDA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Great Zimbabwe University Herbert Chitepo Law School | Masvingo, Zimbabwe | Advancing SDG 10, SDG 1 & UNAI 6
" Passion,compassion and action ground and direct my work as a young leader. Working with Millennium Fellowship will allow me to connect with other likeminded leaders and give me a much better voice. It will assist me in understanding the work of the UN and how best I can make my impact in this world "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Speak Out for the Future
The project seeks to teach young people about how they can make coperates accountable for the harm they cause to the environment in the pursuance of their business. It focuses mostly on mining communities and seeks to address SDG10
About the Millennium Fellow
Simbarashe Banda is a hardworking , compassionate and energetic 23 year old who lives in Zimbabwe. He is a third year law student studying in Masvingo Province of the same country. He can trace his roots throughout the SADC region leading him to joke that he is African rather than Zimbabwean. Simba has always been passionate about climate justice and it's relationship with human rights particularly in the mining communities as they are mostly affected and deprived of their benefits by large corporations.
