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 JEDDIE MKUMBIRA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Malawi University of Science and Technology | Thyolo, Malawi | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 1 & UNAI 3
" I believe this is an opportunity to engage and network with my fellow youth on their success stories in solving community challenges similar to mine bearing in mind that am a youth who is motivated to promote Girl Child Education in my community, facing significant challenges to public health concerning water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) diseases like cholera and diarrhea. Flooding has disrupted sanitation surrounding schools, while droughts have affected water supply, leaving the majority of homes without clean water, which forces women and girls to to walk long distances to collect safe water, which affects their ability to do productive things like school or work. There are few educated girls than boys which is is not fair. Almost 2 out 10 girls to go to school in my area. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Youth Empowerment Project
The project was set to encourage students in secondary schools in our community to remind them of the value of education, but also motivate them to continue pursuing their studies. We would give them tips on how to succeed in school, but also given them direction on their road to further studies.
About the Millennium Fellow
jeddie mkumbira is youth and active student pursuing Bachelor's in water quality management at Malawi University of Science and Technology who have worked as President of MUST Water and Environmental Conservation Society (MWECS) with a core objective to sensitize and educate about Water and Environmental issues that encourage water and Environmental stewardship and advocate Water and Environmental management policies. Some of notable Achievements include: representing society in meetings with national stakeholders like the National Youth Network for Climate Change (NYNCC), Involved in advocacy for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and distribution of WASH items at Chimvu Primary School, Assisted in educational programs and awareness campaigns on water conservation and pollution prevention around Goliat Trading Center.
I have volunteered as student with civil society groups like MUST YOUTHMAPPERS, HIKERS ALLIANCE, by participating in humanitarian activities, water and environmental risk assessment caused by Tropical Cyclone Ana (6th February 2022) in Chikwawa. i also participated in community clean-up drive and tree planting initiative organized by Hikers Alliance surrounding MUST area (3rd March 2023), and participated in assisting cyclone Freddy victims in Chiradzulu as a member of MUST Youth Mappers (2023). my work extended to the appreciation of operations for water policy and laws at Mulanje Forest Reserve by Likhubula Water User’s Association (2023).
Currently, I am doing a project called Assessment of Water Usage at Malawi University of Science and Technology Which focuses on bringing comprehensive data on water usage by the University Which is critical for planning and decision making by authorities
