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 PRINCESS UGONMA ONYEAMA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Kenyatta University | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 4 & UNAI 3, UNAI 2

" I am excited about meeting and engaging fellow fellows alover the world.I am a huge believer in peers to peer counseling/mentorship and creating new networks.The Millennium Fellowship will definitely provide me with a chance to meet new people who we share common and different goals and learn from each other.I also believe that the Millennium Fellowship will provide me with tools and trainings to make a larger impact within my community.I also believe I will develop resilience and a new set of skills as I work on my project.I do the work I do because of how seeing smiles in the beneficiaries faces is fulfilling.Coming from a humble background I believe I have a lot of power to encourage and support children within my community to dare to soar highe.Education and empowerment is indeed and an equalizer and I want to be part of the team that will make it possible for children and teenagers in my community to be empowered. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Collective Minds for Mental Wellness
As a group project, we worked together with Midea Minds and IGLOW community to ensure success of school health education on mental health.We conducted online campaigns for championing mental health awareness on our social media platforms Facebook and LinkedIn. The post featured educational content on mental health and mental health disorders. Our LinkedIn had the most engagement. Additionally, we give a talk about drugs and substance abuse and creating awareness about this topic to young students in Kenyatta University primary School. We covered dangers of substance abuse, how to identify warning signs and the initiative for support. The session was very interactive and we had 300 pupils from grades 6,7 and 8 as our audience. They asked insightful questions and showed genuine engagement.
Finally, we held a webinar on Suicide prevention which was facilitated by Mr. Dennis Chagusia a psychosocial officer and humanitarian.The webinar was majorly attended by youths of ages 18-35. Topics covered included the definition of suicide and familiarizing with terms within this topic, Theories of suicide, Myths and misconceptions about suicide, attitudes about suicide and why people commit suicide. Two other practicing psychologist managed to join and listen in and we're willing to offer support with any one struggling with suicidal thoughts.
About the Millennium Fellow
Vivian Alichula Kadagaya is a fourth year Civil Engineering student at Kenyatta University,who is passionate about social impact and is particularly a mental health enthusiast.Her passion developed after working with the IGLOW community a group whose anchoring pillars are education,mental health awareness and gender mainstreaming.She would love to specialize and focus into the water and sanitation sector in Civil Engineering in future while also persuing social impact activities and projects that will be of benefit to any community .