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 MWANSA VERONICA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Zambia | Lusaka, Zambia | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 3, SDG 11 & UNAI 9
" Millenium fellowship is an impeccable pool of young thinkers, innovators and problem solvers. It will expose me to a very wide network, that will help me collaborate, learn and fuel my ideas into action. The work I do helps me be part of the solution-the world is filled with a lot of injustice and iniquity, not something I like to see that's why even if I can be the slightest glimmer of hope because of what I advocate for, I'll do it. That's what I love about my work. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sustainable Water, Environmental Education Project (SWEEP)
"The project called SWEEP -Sustainable Water Environmental Health Project is a project aimed at educating women especially in market places about proper waste management, water and sanitation. An African proverb goes, “If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.”
SWEEP is a project that aims and addresses the elephant that has been in the room of our central business district town center, which is poor waste management and poor sanitation practices in the marketplace.
The project recognizes that women are play a vital role in society; as mothers, wives, workers, sisters, they have the power to influence people around them once they themselves have been impacted.
Starting with Soweto market, SWEEP aims at ensuring women in the marketplace practice clean hygiene as they work by educating them on the impact of unsanitary practices and advocating for clean and safe water as well as proper waste management."
About the Millennium Fellow
Veronica Mwansa is a young, excellent and outgoing youth, who recently graduated from the University of Zambia. Passionate about social Justice and climate Justice she has always been involved in projects and programs that drove at addressing injustices under the two aforementioned umbrellas. In future Veronica aims at coming up with her own organization, continuing advocacy and creating initiatives to help address issues related to social injustice.
