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 MERCY MARGARET AKAYO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Gulu University | Gulu, Uganda | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 3, SDG 17 & UNAI 9
" Am so passionate about doing something to bring positive change.. so getting an opportunity like this where I can connect with like minded people to bring great impact to our society excites me...I believe that with the right mentorship and resources I will be able to achieve a lot through this fellowship "
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
Akayo Margaret Mercy is a very strong-willed, dedicated , ambitious, self-driven and intelligent young lady who is currently pursuing her bachelor's degree in biosystems engineering at Gulu university. She's a Ugandan and an Itesot by tribe. Mercy has always been passionate about change right from her early teenage years and she not only sits around with her ideas but actually goes out of her way to do something about bringing and implementing this change and right now at campus she's part of the gender equality team that are trying to bring awareness in and outside campus.. she has been a great leader starting from her family being the firstborn right to the various social societies where She has been a part of.
