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 STACY CHERONO KIRUI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Nairobi KNH Campus | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. I care about good health and well being, whether mental or physical, working with like minded individuals as Millennium Fellows will bring us a step closer to achieving this. The skills I shall gain shall enable me to work more with the community and give this power to them that they may be better. I am intrigued by the thought of a community that knows what power they have over their health." "
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
Stacy Cherono Kirui is a charismatic, bubbly, hardworking soon to be medical doctor who has always seen the world through lenses of joy always aiming to make the world a better place, her world being her community. All through her life she has been slowly advancing the global health agenda. She has participated in various clubs that aim at ridding the youth of drug use by creating plays regarding the danger of drug abuse. She is an avid actress, what better way of creating awareness than displaying it on a stage. At the moment her sights are set on creating mental health awareness in the faculty of health sciences in the University. She finds no greater fulfilment than that of improving the life of her community.
