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 AMUA VANNESSA JOAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Uganda Martyrs University | Nkozi, Uganda | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 1, SDG 5, SDG 2, SDG 11, SDG 10 & UNAI 1
" Leadership is the pivot on which an organized world rotates. Being able to be part of
the Millennium Fellowship is not only a dream come true but a platform to another
level of creativity, transparency and hardwork. I believe that the program will greatly
input a lot of skills that I will use to enhance on the quality of work I do as a leader. It
will also expose me to a variety of leaders from different diaspora from whom I will
learn, share and exchange knowledge on how to better the world we live in. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Echo Hope
ECHO HOPE is a campus project that aims to empower under privileged communities by addressing very many challenges related to poverty, hunger, gender inequality and access to education guided by the Sustainable Development Goals like No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Education For All, Reduced Inequalities, gender equality, Sustainable Cities and Communities and good health and wellbeing. To make a social impact, we shall need to start up community led income generating activities such as micro enterprises, set up community gardens to enhance food security, engage men, boys, girls and women as allies in promoting gender equality and shared leadership roles, provide skills development workshops on topics such as digital literacy, entrepreneurship and leadership. This project integrates multiple interaction to ensure that progress in one area contributes to sustainable outcomes in other areas. By addressing the root cause of poverty, hunger, gender inequality and lack of education, the initiative seeks to create lasting community driven change, regular engagement with community leaders, stakeholders and beneficiaries to ensure that the solutions are context-specific and adaptable to the evolving needs of the community.
About the Millennium Fellow
Vannessa Joan Amua is a young intelligent, resilient and passion driven lady
undertaking a bachelor's of science in accounting and finance management at Uganda
Martyrs University Nkozi. Hailing form Uganda, Abim district in Karamoja, a region
particularly infested with injustices against women who have for years been side lined
to forced and early marriages, not prioritized to be educated because they are massive
investments to most parents as sources of bride price, she felt a need to make a
difference, in not just the way the women in her region are perceived, but to also give
them hope that there is more to them, that they can actually be girls and not brides,
that they can dream, study, have careers have have an impact in their societies and
beyond. Driven by this passion, she went on for a challenge during her high school
days, called Saving the Innocence, where she helped her child mother, a victim of rape
at just 15, took her off the slums, journeyed with her throughout pregnancy and
successfully put her back to school through charity runs she made together with her
team. She is passionate about leadership and believes that through being an insightful
female leader, she can influence and stand out, to end forced and early marriages in
her region, inspire women to have dreams and aggressively go for them. She hopes to
be a figure of change to her region and the entire world at large. The perception gap
that women and young girls have no dreams to look forward to should be changed.
She knows these because she grew up in the region, seeing all these kinds of injustice
being carried out, having close friends and relatives being forced off to get married,
drop out of school because there is no future for them, makes her push so hard, so
that she can give back to her community, be a leader of change for most, for all.
