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 MITCHELLE PERIS MUDIBO TENDET, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 13, SDG 10, SDG 5 & UNAI 4
" Adaptability ans sustainability for all is my greatrest vision. Sometiomes I feel like my dreams are too big, and I'm too small to handle them. But getting accepted into the Millennium Fellowship just proved the contrary. I am more than excited to receive the memtorship and empowerment I will gain at Millennium Fellowship, I am assured i will get better understanding with regards to UNAI principles and the SDGs and this will make me better at the work I am doing and will do to promote my communities and all social systems in my country and more at large. promoting sustinence, sustainable patterns of knowledge, adaptability among others, that is my dream. So thankyou Millennium Fellowship, for helping me make steps towards that. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Tendet Foundation
The Tendet Foundation is a youth- led organization committed to tackling the marginalization of the knowledge systems of Indigenous people and local communities. We are dedicated to fostering community-driven environmental sustainability through climate adaptation and climate justice, cultural preservation and gender equality by actively collaborating with local and indigenous communities to address systemic inequalities, emphasizing holistic, unified approaches. As a forward-thinking entity, the Tendet Foundation prioritizes creating lasting impacts, building resilient partnerships, and driving meaningful change through its initiatives.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mitchelle Peris Mudibo Tendet is a Kenyan Undergraduate Student at the University of Nairobi. She is also a research assistant for EACC. and an environmental Enthusiast. She lives in Nairobi but is descendant from three native tribes in kenya, the Luhya, Luo and the Sabaot. Growing up in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya which is acompletely urban set up, seeing the difference between her life and the lives of her community people made her realize the differrence was both a blessing and a curse. So many healthy practices for the environment by the native people, but such a great disconnect in terms of education and awareness to the same. Peris realized she could actually do something about it during her first data collection expedition in 2023, learn and unlearn and spread this word throughout her country, throught the world.
