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 EVANS KARANI MUGAMBI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
New York University Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Advancing SDG 7, SDG 13 & UNAI 3
" Innovation and service, driven by leadership and sustainability, inspire my work in engineering and community development. Being a Millennium Fellow will allow me to collaborate with like-minded peers, sharpen my skills, and amplify my impact on advancing clean energy solutions and student welfare. The experience will align my initiatives with the UNAI principles and SDGs, and I am excited to grow as a changemaker by creating practical solutions for global challenges. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: BlueFlame Homes: Cooking from waste
BlueFlame Homes replaces smoky, costly firewood and charcoal with household biogas made from kitchen scraps. We address deforestation, indoor air pollution, and time/income spent on fuel. Our goal is to help households build low-cost digesters from local materials and run them safely. We deliver quick demos, community build-days, and 8–12 weeks of coaching, then scale via a train-the-trainer model. Impact is tracked with simple logs: less wood/charcoal used, minutes cooked on biogas, money saved, and bio-slurry applied to gardens. Each participating home gains cleaner air, lower costs, and better soils while easing pressure on local forests and turning everyday waste into reliable, clean cooking energy.
About the Millennium Fellow
Evans Karani is a bright, young and globally competitive electrical engineering student. He was born in Kenya, resides in Meru, and is preparing to pursue his studies abroad; truly a citizen of the world. For as long as he could remember, Evans has always been passionate about innovation, sustainable development, and community empowerment. This drive and ardour translated itself from Evans’ experiences as School Captain, where he championed student welfare, environmental initiatives, and peaceful leadership. Throughout his high school years and gap year, he successfully engaged in professional service at Equity Bank and organized community projects that empowered others. With his outstanding leadership, he plans to continue in the future. Evans aspires to be in a professional field where he can cultivate these advocacies further, and provide his own contribution in the development of the United Nations’ Sustainable Goals.
