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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT PATRICK PRECIOUS OTIENO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

Maseno University | Kisumu, Kenya | Advancing SDG 1 & UNAI 3

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" From the heat of lack, I discovered that suffering can refine a person like a diamond. The pain I endured became my purpose, to change the world and empower the needy. In my short tenure as a nonprofit executive, I have learned the transformative power of leadership knowledge. The Millennium Fellowship offers me not only the chance to execute Clear the Streets but to gain practical skills to advance the SDGs and equip me to impact the millions I envision empowering in the near future. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Clear the Streets

Clear the streets is a project that i vowed to undertake in my highschool days. Travelling to school I would buy food for the homeless children and pray with them. I promised them that I would go back and remove them from the streets. So what we aim to do is to create awareness of the plight of the street children of Kisumu, all over Kenya and eventually beyond the country. Then we aim to return them to their homes because having interacted with them, I realized most cases are due to the negligence of the parents and thus correctable and preventable. But before returning them we have to rehabilitate them because some have been using drugs while on the street and have taken up the rogue street culture. This is a passion that is burning inside of me and I will dedicate my energy to removing my brothers and sisters from the streets.

About the Millennium Fellow

Patrick Otieno is a passionate young social impact leader from Kenya with a lifelong commitment to service. Rising from humble beginnings, he served as a district-level student leader in primary school and later as Community Service Prefect at Kapsabet Boys High School, where he conceived Clear the Streets, a program to help street children reintegrate into society. After high school, he founded For A Smile’s Sake, which has empowered thousands of students in Kenya and recently expanded to Uganda, supporting vulnerable communities, including feeding 200 street children in Kisumu. Patrick now seeks to grow his leadership and impact through the Millennium Fellowship.

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