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 VALENTINE WANJIKU WANGUI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Nairobi Main Campus | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 3, SDG 5 & UNAI 3

" Creativity and compassion are one of my key character traits as an individual and I do believe that the Millennium Fellowship will create a ground for me to exercise both of this and also expand my thinking and exchange ideas with my fellows so as to be the change we want to see in the community. "
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
Valentine Wanjiku Wangui is a pre-graduate International Studies Student at the University of Nairobi. She was born in a small county called Murang'a county which is in the central province of Kenya.Throughout her studies both primary high school and even university she has been a great force in advocating for being the change that she wants to see in the society and this has made her take part in programmes that advocate for social justice and the voiceless in the society.She has also taken part in volunteering programmes and community projects to push for this.She aspires to be a high end diplomat to continue with her passion for social issues and working hand in hand with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.












