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 JOYCE WAMBÛI KAMAU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Moi University | Eldoret, Kenya | Advancing SDG 10, SDG 12, SDG 17 & UNAI 3
" I am so excited to learn how I can be effective in reaching goals involving social impact. I am also eager to see what projects other fellows have. This will open my eyes to other gaps in the community. This will be crucial in closing the gaps, especially in health education. I believe that the first step to making healthcare accessible is by providing health education. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Spacer project
The Spacer Project aims to provide patients from low-income backgrounds with COPD affordable, home-made spacers to improve the efficacy of disease management. The project primarily serves patients from economically disadvantaged communities.
So far, the project has produced and supplied 240 home-made spacers to Webuye Clinic, with a goal of reaching 500 by December 2025. All spacers were distributed free of charge to patients. In addition, a workshop was conducted at Tumaini Innovation Center to educate youth on COPD and the production, use, and cleaning of home-made spacers. Educational materials were also produced and shared with healthcare providers at events such as the FAMSA 2025 Conference and the York University Conference, aligning with the project’s goal of raising awareness and building knowledge around COPD management.
About the Millennium Fellow
The Home-Made spacer Project is an initiative that aims to provide an affordable
solution for patients with asthma. The spacers make drug delivery more efficient thus
potentially improving patient outcomes. The spacers are made from readily available
materials including recycled plastic bottles. We aim to have made and delivered 1000
bottles to patients by December 2025. We also aim to educate them on how to make,
clean and use the bottles. Additionally, we will follow up the patients to track their
outcomes using parameters such as spirometry.
