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 MAKMOT KABIRA JOHNSON, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Makerere University | Kampala, Uganda | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3

" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it gives me the opportunity to grow as a leader while working on projects that create real impact. I do the work I do because I believe technology and community can drive positive change, empower students, and shape a better future. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: MindLyfe MUK College Connect
MindLyfe MUK College Connect is a student led mental health campaign by MindLyfe Makerere Chapter aimed at raising mental health awareness, and advocacy in purposeful living. We engage in mental health talks, counselling students in areas of health relationships and living health lifestyle. Our approach emphasizes sessions in living safely through practicing safe sex, abstaining and regular testing from the University Hospital where its free. As part of our activities, we also encourage students to desist from drug usage and abuse as well as unproductive usage of social media. This has impacted the student community where we have witnessed an increased number of students regularly testing for HIV and drinking responsibly, for the party goers. While the university has a counseling center and other helpful resources, many students are either ignorant of their existence or are simply too adamant to take advantage of these. This project narrows the gap between the Makerere University Counselling Center and general student population, basing on the ideals and principles of community psychology . We work have formed partnerships with other stakeholders such as the student leadership, church communities particularly Catholic and Anglican Communities that help us with the publicity of our advocacy and intervention.
About the Millennium Fellow
I Am a Software Engineer and student with skills in web programming, front-end (AngularJS), and mobile development (Flutter). Am building expertise in Web3, blockchain, and smart contracts through hands-on work with Rust, Solidity, Cairo, and deployments on Base. As a member of the Decentracode Web3 Bootcamp, am focused on Cairo and StarkNet, with future goals in smart contract auditing. Beyond academics, i have ICP, Odoo ERP, and data analysis with Pandas. Active in communities like GDG Kampala, GDSC, and Google Cloud, i volunteer, lead, and inspire others, balancing technical growth with leadership and motivation. I Am an IEEE ambassador at my university, I Am The WEb 3 club lead at Makerere University and a former GDG lead at Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology, I Am also the current Emerging Tech lead at GDG on Campus Makerere.








