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 GREAT HEPSIBAH ODALLA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" I anticipate to be a Millennium Fellow with the drive for change. It feels good to bring and be part of something that eases the pain of others. I am trying to be the help and support I wish I had from the time I was diagnosed when I was so young. Making the world a better place brings me satisfaction. Seeing somebody be free of mental and emotional torment after going through those rough moments makes me feel like I am sharing in their joy. We all need to hear that we are not alone. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sensitizing Masses on Mental Health Disorders.
My project involves sensitizing the masses on mental health disorders. I aim to make people in Kenya more aware on how to spot the differents signs of variuos mental disorders and challenges. Further, I plan to look into how to make the mental disorders bearable or manageable individuals going through them. For example, champion for the subsidization of antidepressants, anti-anxiety medication or an other drugs used, setting up of help care hotlines and so much more.
About the Millennium Fellow
Great Hepsibah Odalla is an autistic twenty-one-year old girl, born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. She is currently doing her undergraduate degree majoring in Philosophy and Political Science at the Universityof Nairobi. Her passion for mental health awareness stems from her experience with autism, mixed anxiety, alexithymia and clinical depression. Her drive is simply to clear the misconceptions surrounding mental health challenges and she aims to come up with solutions that make it easier for youths with similar experiences.
