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 ILHAN OSMAN MOHAMED, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Nairobi Main Campus | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 3, SDG 5 & UNAI 3
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it gives me the chance to turn my ideas into action and collaborate with others who care about making change. My motivation comes from seeing how women in my community struggle with period poverty and how lack of education continues to disadvantage young girls. I believe these challenges should never limit anyone’s future, and through this Fellowship I hope to grow as a leader and create solutions that uplift women and society at large. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: THEIR PATH
Our project mainly focuses on combating period poverty which is one of the major issues facing most adolescent girls in our society where most of the girls opt in using the available materials or even miss some school days during this time of the month. We find that even most of the girls also use marriage as an escape of period poverty where they decide to get married in order to get someone to provide sanitary towels for them. Another issue we will be focusing on is preventing or reducing the number of teenage pregnancies which has been highlighted as an issue not only facing our country Kenya but the globe at large. We will also focus on the issue of safe and consensual sex among our peers. And last but not least we will be focusing on the issue of providing quality education for most of the kids coming from humble backgrounds and cannot access quality education. All these will be achieved through a series of activities, but the major one will basically be through community outreach so as to get to as many people as possible in order to ensure the effectiveness of our project.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ilhan Mohamed is a first-year student at the University of Nairobi pursuing a degree in International Relations. She is a Millennium Fellow dedicated to addressing period poverty, teenage pregnancies, and advancing quality education. In the Kenya Model United Nations (KMUN), Ilhan serves as the Communications Director of her chapter, a role that makes her part of the local Secretariat, while also actively participating as a delegate. She contributes to Echoes Unheard, an initiative amplifying marginalized voices and tackling issues of social justice, gender equality, and mental health. Ilhan aspires to drive inclusive governance and sustainable development locally and globally.
