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.
Mount Kenya University | Thika, Kenya | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 5 & UNAI 2
" Capacity building and empowerment are my strong belief towards building a sustainable community. As a millennium fellow I believe that community need to have a voice of their own ,community need to have a voice to speak and demand what is just and rightfully theirs. Capacity building and empowerment are proper tools for building and impacting confidence and a voice to the marginalised "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Take Control
TAKE CONTROL IS A PROJECT AIMED AT IMPACTING YOUTHS AND YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13-26 WITH LEADERSHIP SKILLS .THE PROJECT INVOLVES TRAINING YOUTHS ON DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP SKILLS ,VALUE BASED LEADERSHIP ADVOCATING FOR HONEST LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCING POLICIES ,THROUGH TRAINING ,MENTORSHIP WORKSHOPS AND COMMUNITY SENSITIZATION .
About the Millennium Fellow
Api Joseph is a community development champion studying at mount kenya university pursuing bachelor's degree in community development. Api was born in mathare slum in Nairobi kenya .being a slum coded area Api and his family struggled to aquire social anemities such a quality health services,quality education ,they faced several social and political injustices .Api have strong belief and faith that by him accomplish his dreams he will be able to lead his community towards realising their potential and initiating community sustainable development projects .Api want to promote community capacity building and empower community members to be able to have a voice to speak for their rights.
