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.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT KENNY ROGERS OTIENO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Cooperative University of Kenya | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 2 & UNAI 1
" "Creativity and critical thinking fuelled by adaptability drive my interest to advocate and organize youth-led organisation to contribute to the success of the SDGS and UNAI.
Being part of Millennium Fellowship will enhance these skills collaboratively and will help me gain more knowledge and experience with different expertise hence leading to the forestering of success of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Better Life Transformation
Just as the name suggests it'is a project that is aimed at bringing a better transformation of the lives in the community and its surroundings. Here we bring stakeholders from the community to form part of it's leadership, this helps in engagement from the grassroot levels hence, capturing at least 95 of the problems and solution. Our heavy focus has been in the environment, For example Iwas introducing an activity called "RE-GREENING OF MUHURU-GOT KACHOLA WARDS ",This project is mainly to bring back the old look of our community and put in practice measures that will lead to Sustainable Resource Use and Growth.Some of the practices I would wish to put to practice includes: 1) Engaging the Famer Management and Natural Resources (FMNR) stakeholders to help in creating awareness. 2) Creating Hot spots to be used as learning and research centres , this is mainly in the well doing neighbourhood farms . 3) Provision of resources to help and forester this project , this is through; Provision of seeds/seedlings, watering cans and pipes , water pumping generators to some areas and the green fencing nets.
About the Millennium Fellow
Kenny Rogers Otieno is a hardworking youth and student of Environmental Economics and policy studies at The Cooperative University of kenya. He was born in kenya and resides in Nairobi, Rogers has been passionate about environment and has been a Youth-led for Environmental advocacy. Throughout his time in high school and currently in college, he has successfully organized youth-led organisation which has led to advocating for SDGS. Rogers aspires to be in a professional field where he can cultivate these advocacies further and lead to the success of Millennium Fellowship and contribution to the development of the United Nations SDGS.
