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 CHARLES DARWINS KINATAAMA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Makerere University | Kampala, Uganda | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2

" "Our small contributions in our small communities when summed up together,will constitute a global change." Joining a network of young people and youths who are enthusiastic to impact the world through various projects is an opportunity to learn,to improve my leadership and advocacy skills, and more suture long lasting partnership along the way. The Millennium Fellowship is not only a youth -ful platform but a global family of humans who are passionate about contributing to the overarching global UN sustainable development goals. This is what a modern day youth should live for in my view because the future is youth and the youths are the future. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Youth-Led Anti-Sickle Cell Campaign In Uganda
this is a youth-led project , aiming at increasing awareness about sicklecell disease, imparting knowledge about its transmission and prevention , and encouraging people especially those in the child-bearing age to undertake sicklecell screening inorder to know their sicklecell status and those of their partners before making marriage decisions or decisions for child bearing. our project also involved undertaking a cross-sectional study to assess preconception knowledge about couple contribution to sickle cell transmission among pregnant women attending antenatal care in a national referral hospital in Kampala, Uganda inorder to provide evidence based knowledge gaps to inform appropriate interventions
About the Millennium Fellow
Charles Darwins Kinataama is a young humble Ugandan male born in Central Uganda. He is currently a final year medical student pursuing a bachelor's of medicine and bachelor of surgery degree (MBChB) at the college of health sciences, Makerere University.
He has always been passionate about advocacy for good health and wellbeing, maternal child and adolescent health and Climate change mitigation and justice. Having lived in a community where sicklecell anaemia is rampant and having participated in care for sicklers and Mulago hospital, he is greatly inspired to tackle this genetic burden by contributing to increasing mass awareness and comprehensive knowledge about Sickle cell disease spectrum especially among preconception couples and premarital individuals. Charles aspires to to a global leader in an innovative world where people work everyday to create an impact in the lives of others. He aspires to be in an ecosystem of global health policy makers and public health providers . He is set to making long lasting networks and partnerships with social change architects both locally and globally.





