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 JOSEPH BILL AWANY, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Gulu University | Gulu, Uganda | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 3, SDG 17 & UNAI 9
" Being a Millennium Fellow is a great opportunity for me to learn and to grow. When I first learned about Millennium Fellows, I saw great and alike minds and saw that it's possible to grow and make an impact as a young leader. This is why I am excited. I am also an innovator on mostly web and embedded systems. I believe this would be a platform to develop and express my full potential "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Keep Gulu City Clean Project
The project based at Gulu Main Market is an ongoing community sanitation and environmental awareness initiative aimed at promoting cleanliness, public health, and responsible waste management among market vendors and community members. As part of this project, we organized a market-wide cleaning exercise involving sweeping, garbage collection, sanitation sensitization, and proper waste disposal practices.
The project seeks to create a cleaner, safer, and healthier marketplace by engaging youth volunteers, vendors, and local leaders in environmental stewardship. In addition to the physical cleaning, we conducted short awareness sessions on hygiene, disease prevention, waste segregation, and the importance of maintaining clean public spaces. This initiative strengthens community ownership, supports public health, and contributes to Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).
About the Millennium Fellow
Joseph Bill Awany is a creative, intelligent and inquisitive young man. Currently a second year student of Information and Communications Technology at Gulu University, he is passionate about a leadership that brings change to both the lives of people in the global community and the environment. By leveraging research and innovations, he believes in a world that can be made better and balanced for everyone. This is the reason he spends most of his time reading, imagining and trying to create solutions for a better world
