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ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025

United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT FAITH MERCY GITONGA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

Chuka University | Chuka, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6

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" Finding purpose and making progress are the main things that fuel my drive to achieving a mentally healthy society. Millennium Fellowship gives me a platform where I can be able to learn how to help others realize their full potential through attaining a sound mind. Millennium Fellowship aims at improving the way people live and by helping people understand their full capabilities or rather realize that current situations don't define their future, I believe that I will also be helping in improving the lives of many in our society. I am eager to learn even more than I want to know and help people in the most effective manner possible. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Tunza Afya ya Akili

This project aims at ensuring that those individuals going through rough times and mental constraints are helped attain a good mental health. Additionally it aims at promoting optimism among mostly young people going through various hardships that may deter their wellbeing. The project focused on fellow campus students and successfully established a mental health desk and a suggestion box through a university religious union. Students were able to express their struggles, share contact details, and release emotional pressure by writing their feelings. Engagement with counsellors, peer advocates, and encouragement through WhatsApp articles further strengthened mental health awareness on campus, despite challenges in organizing workshops due to scheduling constraints.

About the Millennium Fellow

Faith Mercy Mwendwa is a young vibrant , intelligent lady who has always been passionate about the well being of people since childhood. She is currently an engineering student ( in her third year) in Chuka University - Kenya. She was born and raised in Kenya and still studies in Kenya. Her aspirations are to see a change in her community, society, country and worldwide in terms of how people relate socially and how they behave during different circumstances. She has always been curious about how and why people react differently during different situations and how mental instability really affects not only the behavior of people but also the future of many( this is more so among the young people). Due to this reasons, she has always volunteered to be a peer counselor to her colleagues both in high school and currently in her campus. She desires to develop as many mental awareness hubs in all campuses in her country ( starting from her own campus) whereby the students would be given counsel by trained personnel on mental health( on a weekly and monthly basis all through the semesters) since it has been identified as a major cause of poor performances in most campuses. Her target is not only in the universities but nationwide also in different regions of the state. That is why she is glad to be part of the Millennium Fellowship. She believes that saving a single generation saves a dozen generations ahead too. Additionally, she believes that a healthy mind breeds peace ,unity and success not just socially or psychologically but also economically hence improving the nation too.

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