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 RHODA GLADYS NAMABIRO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Kampala International University | Kampala, Uganda | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 4, SDG 17 & UNAI 3
" "Translating skills and expertise into innovative approaches to real-world problems." Through hands-on experience and collaborative learning. Being a part of Millennium Fellowship will help further develop my skills collaboratively. Skills gained from Millennium Fellowship will help contribute to more meaningful projects that impact lives, as aligned with the UN SDGs. I am excited to grow my competence and problem solving ability. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: HEALTH and HYGIENE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
HEALTH AND HYGIENE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN (H,HAC) is an independent project led by Millennium Fellow Rhoda Namabiro. It addresses the importance of maintaining good health and hygiene through education, innovatively and hands on activities. The project aims to engage with and educate children in the KIU community (both students and surrounding college pupils), and eventually the surrounding University Community, to harness good health and hygiene practices to help improve the quality of life it will base on
participatory health talks with peer to peer sessions where
students shall be oriented in hand washing practice, orodental care, menstrual hygiene and preventive
measures of local endemic diseases especially Malaria,
Cholera, diarrhea, and cough. During the Millennium Fellowship period (August-December 2025), project ( H,HAC) will conduct 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. Holding five school awareness open days in different schools and two community open gatherings. We are aiming to reach about 200 people combined over these meetings.
About the Millennium Fellow
Rhoda Namabiro is a brilliant, vibrant second year Medical student at Kamapala International University, Uganda. She is born of Uganda and resides in a District called Kamuli in the Eastern part of Uganda. She has been passionate about translating theoretical knowledge into practical solutions in the health sector right from her early college years. Having been born in a town endemic for a zoonotic foot infection. She saw herself branded a social neglect. Throughout her college and currently her University she has been involved in community sanitation and hygiene awareness campaigns. Through hands-on experience and collaborative learning, she aspires to be in a professional field where she can ultimately enhance community health and well-being, providing her own contribution of the UN's sustainable goals.
