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 LIESELIE EMMANUEL MBALI LIESELIE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Fort Hare | Alice, South Africa | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 4 & UNAI 6
" As I come from a poor background, I have personally witnessed one of the less noticed youth setback factors which is the lack of resources like internet data, phones, and university's application fee funds and registration fee funds. These hindering factors lead me to an unplanned gap which was one of the worst year of my life which I don't wish for anyone, but then as soon as I was able pick myself up I then wished to help others who faced the same problems as the start in order to tackle these global sustainable issues at the core. They say prevention is better than fixing, that is why I decided to tackle the problem on it very early stages. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Empower kwa-Nzimakwe Youth
This is a project I started last year June as I realized that I suffered an unplan gap year on year 2022 due to me not having a phone and my grandmother also didn't own a smartphone then I had an unplanned gap year. This made me realize that a lot of smart young minds are left behind to suffer from poverty and unemployment as they will be lacking education for occupying those jobs and opening those businesses, meaning that this problem of not being able to apply for higher education might be seen as minor problem but it has a big impact on our youth today. I then opened an NPO called Empower Nzimakwe Youth which will work as a bridge to higher education to those high school scholars who wish to apply to colleges and universities but don't have the necessary equipment to do so which is a smartphone and access to network. I organized a computer lab with free wifi from my villages Chief and started applying for free for the students shortly after organizing a career guidance day for all my villages high school as I wanted them to understand their career paths.
About the Millennium Fellow
Lieselie Emmanuel Mbali a very thoughtful and a disciplined 22 years old student from the University of Fort Hare who's in the 3rd year of his Law Degree in the Eastern Cape, was born and breed in KwaZulu-Natal from a town known as Port shepstone. The named student has turned his painful past to joy as he founded the Empower kwa-Nzimakwa Youth NPO which aims to make change in his country when it comes to the Sustainable global issues. As young and financially broke Lieselie was, he was able to pursue his dream of changing the motherland in to a benefit able environment for the current youth and future generations to come as he is already pushing his work in order for him to have a helping hand on the Millennium Fellowship program.
