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 ALLANO DANIEL LEMOILE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Mount Kenya University | Thika, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 9 & UNAI 3
" I'm excited to be a Millennium Fellow to amplify community voices and drive impactful change through health,environment, and equity "
Millennium Fellowship Project: MH-SDSU Kenya: Mental Health Digital Surveillance Unit
MH-SDSU Kenya (Mental Health – Digital Surveillance Unit) is an ongoing student-led initiative designed to strengthen mental-health awareness, early detection, and community response among youth and vulnerable groups in Kenya. The project uses a digital surveillance and reporting model to monitor mental-health challenges, track trends, and provide timely psycho-education through online platforms.
The initiative focuses on three core pillars:
●Digital Mental-Health Reporting: Using simple online tools and anonymous surveys to gather real-time data on stress, depression symptoms, anxiety, and social risk factors affecting students and young people.
●Awareness & Capacity Building: Conducting virtual sensitizations, social-media campaigns, and community discussions to improve mental-health literacy and reduce stigma.
●Referral & Support Linkages: Connecting individuals with trained counsellors, community-health volunteers, and local mental-health services for early intervention.
Through data-driven monitoring, the project aims to empower communities with accurate information, promote early help-seeking behaviour, and strengthen the overall mental-health ecosystem. The project is still ongoing and continues to expand its reach, impact, and partnerships.
About the Millennium Fellow
Allano Daniel Lemoile is a 4th year public health student from Mount kenya University,passionate about environmental conservation and accessibility to clean water. He champions for safe water initiatives among vulnerable pastoralist communities affected by climate change. Through such activities and current project he's working on- focusing on grassroot disease surveillance through school based disease surveillance units aimed at reducing outbreaks at the grassroot level and to make schools (both primary and secondary) and institutions e.g universities, the first line of defence against infectious disease outbreaks. Allano is committed to advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals through innovation and partnerships
