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 NAGGAYI SHIFRAH KASUJJA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
United States International University Africa | Nairobi, Kenya | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Sharing, Caring and enhancing leadership skills those are the three things that fueled me to join the Millennium Fellowship. Being part of the Millennium Fellowship will help boost my confidence through interaction with different people and also boost my leadership skills. As we kept singing when were young Sharing is caring indeed it is and this fellowship will help me achieve my goal of sharing and caring for people. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Akili bora Afia bora initiative
We are implementing a comprehensive mental health initiative designed to equip students with practical coping strategies and resilience skills. By combining awareness campaigns with concrete support systems, this project fosters a culture of care and ensures access to professional help when needed.
Our target audience is children aged 15–20, particularly those in slum areas who have limited access to mental health facilities. Our initial goal was to raise mental health awareness among children in schools within these communities, and we successfully accomplished this by visiting schools in Korogocho, such as Grapes Yard School. During these visits, we discovered that some children already had an understanding of mental health and coping strategies, which made our work more effective. The teachers were also highly supportive, which further facilitated the project’s success.
About the Millennium Fellow
Naggayi Shifrah Kasujja is a 22 year old girl who grew up in a small town called Kiwatule in Kampala ,Uganda. She is a very passionate and ambitious student pursuing a Bachelor's of science in software engineering currently in her third year second semester and she is hoping to continue and do her masters in the States by God's grace. She is a very kind girl who loves helping people most especially those who are in need. When it comes to leadership, she loves working with different people in order to learn one or two things from them. Shifrah is very creative and innovative and she is very good at bringing up new ideas that benefit or add value to people. Despite the fact that she is pursuing an IT major, Shifrah is very open to taking up different opportunities even those outside the IT field. This shows that she is very hardworking and open minded. Shifrah is looking forward to working with different and interacting with different individuals during the Millennium Fellowship.
