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 PETRONILLAH ADHIAMBO KHAMALA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Nairobi KNH Campus | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" Leadership is a skill that when we'll nurtured is a tool that pushes the society a step ahead. A leader should have the potential to meet the evolving society at the point of their need and not his/ her own, negotiate on behalf of society and negotiate with society to make an impact.
This very skills I believe can be nurtured by the fellowship. "
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
Petronillah Khamala is an all round young lady. She is academically gifted to study a bachelor's in medicine and bachelor in surgery at the University of Nairobi to an award winning table tennis player to an advocate of infectious disease control.
She was born in a small town in Kakamega, Western Kenya to later proceed high school in Kisumu and later to Nairobi for her higher education. This has given much more exposure to diverse Kenyan community.
She is delighted to join the Millennium Fellowship to sharpen her leadership skills for the betterment of the society at large.
