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 MAYAMBALA CATHERINE KUSAASIRA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Gulu University | Gulu, Uganda | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 3, SDG 17 & UNAI 9
" "Passion for sustainable food solutions and community well-being drives my work in food bioscience and agribusiness. Joining the Millennium Fellowship excites me because it offers a platform to refine my leadership, amplify my impact, and collaborate with like-minded change makers. Through this fellowship, I aim to align my projects with the UNAI principles and SDGs, transforming innovative ideas into tangible outcomes that promote health, reduce hunger, and inspire lasting solutions. "
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
Mayambala Catherine is a passionate, innovative, and globally minded young leader with a background in Food Bioscience and Agribusiness from Gulu University. She was born and raised in Uganda, where her curiosity, creativity, and dedication to community development began to flourish. Currently, she is channeling her expertise and entrepreneurial spirit into building a healthy snacks business that offers nutritious products such as mandazi, daddies, cookies, and cakes, with the aim of promoting healthier eating habits in her community currently at the University.
Catherine has been deeply committed to initiatives that uplift others—whether through her baking skills, her agribusiness knowledge, or her active engagement in capacity-building programs such as rotaract andher engagement in projects such as wash project for Majipreneurs . Her internships at CURAD have strengthened her abilities in portfolio management, monitoring and evaluation, and business development. She has also participated in various community mobilization and training activities, demonstrating her skill in inspiring collective action.
Throughout her academic journey and entrepreneurial pursuits, She has organized and contributed to projects that align with sustainable food systems, women’s empowerment, and youth entrepreneurship. Through her outstanding leadership and determination to step beyond her comfort zone, she plans to expand her impact, empowering communities through healthier diets and inclusive economic growth. Catherine aspires to be in a professional field where she can further cultivate these advocacies and contribute meaningfully to the advancement of the United Nations Sustainable Development
