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 ANDREW SIKWESE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences | Blantyre, Malawi | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Teamwork, creativity, innovation will be collaboratively enhanced through this Millennium Fellowship. I believe having like minded is a gateway to propel you forward in accomplishing your goals in life and that's what I'm expecting from this fellowship. Being part of this year Millennium Fellowship I believe this will boost my techno know how in driving the initiative I co founded to achieve it's goals. My community and the nation at large will benefit from this knowing that my increase in knowledge will a transformative endeavors to all of us as we know there will be mitigation in place to avoid the natural disasters that has brought catastrophe in our country as of recent. Hence with this fellowship knowledge will amassed and people will know what to do on the ground "
Millennium Fellowship Project: ASPIRE to INSPIRE
The Project was started after the completion of secondary school studies. It began with visits to the founder’s former school, where students were inspired and advised on how best to succeed in their studies. Many questions were addressed, and different strategies were provided to help students excel academically. Upon entering university, the founder joined a group of other students who engage in similar initiatives, reaching different schools within the district. The plan is to expand the talks to include additional elements, such as recognizing the best-performing students as a way to further inspire them. In the long term, the Project also aims to provide financial support to students who are struggling, as it continues to grow.
The Project is expected to positively impact 151-200 lives during the Millennium Fellowship (from August 2025 to November 2025), with a projected goal of reaching 200 students.
The impact will be measured by hosting school visits during holiday periods and maintaining a platform where students can continue to seek guidance even after the visits. Success during this period will be indicated by hosting at least three events, with the hope that students will perform exceptionally well in their studies, proceed to tertiary education, and become responsible citizens. Beyond academic advice, the Project also plans to offer mentorship on life skills and preparation for the broader world, helping students develop holistically.
About the Millennium Fellow
Andrew Sikwese is a charismatic,diligent, young, locally and globally competitive Medical Laboratory Science student at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi. He was born on February 21st, 2002. He did his primary and secondary school in the Northern region of Malawi. Andrew through his stay in Viphya Plantation Division where his dad worked as the Plantation Research Officer, developed his passion to plant and take care of trees to replenish the lost vegetation at a younger age. This passion grew up until his early tertiary education when he founded a group called Green Initiative For Youth which aims at empowering youth with knowledge and resources on how to take care of the vegetation and reafforestation.
This drive and ardour has translated him into a beacon of hope as far as vegetation health is concerned.
As he is finishing his Medical Laboratory Science program at KUHeS he is ready to take this initiative to next level with the knowledge he has amassed as far as resources mobilization is concerned and management.
