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 ASINJA DAN GILBERT, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Kampala International University | Kampala, Uganda | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 4, SDG 17 & UNAI 1
" Creativity and adaptability, self confidence and enhancing good health in communities. Being part of Millennium Fellowship I believe will enhance these skills collaboratively. The skills I gain will make my social impact on schools and communities more visible and aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I really very excited to increase participatory competence by acquiring new ways of learning and creativity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: HEALTH and HYGIENE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
The project will educate children in schools about the importance of maintaining good health and hygiene focused on teaching practical skills that students can adopt to stay healthy. It will base on participatory health talks with sessions where students shall be engaged on hand washing, orodental care, menstrual hygiene and preventive measures of diseases especially Malaria, Cholera, diarrhea, and cough. It will feature learning methods especially peer-to-peer discussions on mental health issues, health skits on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and also providing a safer platform that encourage students to ask questions and experience sharing. School and community cleanup events involving installation of dustbins, hand washing facilities and promotion of proper waste management culture among the students and the entire community shall considered. And since such a project needs support and has to be sustained, we shall ensure collaboration and participation of parents and teachers since they spend even more time with these students health can help in guidance. According to pilot study, 7 in 10 girls reach menace without menstrual knowledge; This project will ensure girls gain confidence by learning about menstrual hygiene and management. They will learn personal hygiene and become ambassadors of health in their community
About the Millennium Fellow
Asinja Dan Gilbert is a bright, young and globally competitive student at Kampala International University. He was born in Kasese district, Uganda and currently a student at Kampala International University. Gilbert has always been passionate about his advocacies for social justice and good health among communities. This drive and ardour translated itself from Gilbert's experience in the international and local community. Throughout his high school years and currently in his university years, he has successfully organized social justice movements and community health projects, which through his outstanding leadership he plans to continue to the future. Gilbert aspires to be in a professional field where he can cultivate these advocacies further and provide his own contribution in the development of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals
