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 KENNEDY MUCHAI GITHIRI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Nairobi KNH Campus | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" Millennium Fellowship is an opportunity for me to make a positive change, and I believe that through everything I learn during the fellowship I'll be better placed when it comes to achieving this goal. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: HPV Awareness Project For Adolescent Girls
My cohort and I have all at one point or another been to the Kenyatta National Hospital wards. We have all witnessed a lot of cervical cancer cases causing significant morbidity and mortality to women. We felt that a significant percentage of this was very preventable and we decided to start a project that involves talking to female adolescents aged 10-13 in the KNH pediatric ward and their caregivers and teaching them easy to understand ways of preventing such.
The project entails educating them about HPV, cervical cancer and the vaccines available. We also have future plans to expand the project to schools and homes around our environment and hope to reach more women.
About the Millennium Fellow
Kennedy Muchai Githiri is a young and ambitious medical student at the University of Nairobi. He was born, raised and resides in Kenya. He is a firm believer of growth, be it that of an individual in a certain area of his/her life, an organization, a nation, or the world at large. He believes that through growth, any entity is able to tackle the ever emerging challenges , and create a better and brighter future at the same time. Growh involes learning from past mistakes and making an effort to plan ahead, while still making the most of today's opportunities. The UN's SDGs are a way for the world to grow past current challenges and develop into a better, safer and more equitable place for all of humanity. Particulary, He advocates for SDG 6 . This is because he believes that water, being on of the most abundant resources in the world, should be available to each and every person on earth.
