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 HERVE HIMBAZA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Kepler College | Kigali, Rwanda | Advancing SDG 2, SDG 8, SDG 4 & UNAI 9
" "I am inspired by new technologies, and love working on climate action. I hope that one day my efforts will help to inspire communities and develop them sustainably through innovation. The Millennium Fellowship will empower me to facilitate a positive social and environmental impact as a fully qualified leader and a more collaborative community member capable of conforming my work to the UNAI principles and SDGs." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Green Future Initiative
The Green Future Initiative (GFI) addresses the critical challenge of climate-induced crop failure and soil erosion facing smallholder farmers in rural Rwanda. Erratic rainfall and torrential downpours are currently destroying up to 40% of harvests, threatening food security and livelihoods.
Our primary goal is to empower farmers by implementing Nature-Based Solutions and building lasting climate resilience. We achieve this by focusing on three core strategies: large-scale agroforestry and tree planting, training in advanced sustainable land management (terracing), and establishing a "Green Ambassadors" peer-education program.
GFI creates social impact by ensuring stable food production, improving soil health, and increasing economic security for vulnerable farming families. By fostering community ownership, we are turning degraded land into productive, climate-proof farmland and creating a scalable model for a resilient green future.
About the Millennium Fellow
Herve Himbaza is an undergraduate and a brilliant, enthusiastic learner of logistics and operations at Southern New Hampshire University under the Kepler Program in Kigali, Rwanda. He has a good record in technology, which, on the one hand, combines with his experience in project management and customer relations to make him an agent of positive change and innovation in society. On the government service facilitation and research transcription fronts, Herve has worked as a facilitator of government services, a transcriber of research, and a climate activist with the Planeteer Alliance Wisdom Council. Being faithful to the notion of sustainable development and community empowerment, he would like to use his technology and leadership to come up with solutions that will make a difference not only in Rwanda but also internationally.
