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 GIMIGU CICY OMER, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Victoria University | Kampala, Uganda | Advancing SDG 8, SDG 1 & UNAI 2
" Creativity drives my work because am interested in creating different kinds of new hair styles especially for African hair so that people get smarter everyday I terms of hair and make up for ladies.I am also driven by my talent in hair making and design which l have built since 2023 as it earns me a living when l plait someone for money and also it has improved my skills I design and beauty . "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Ladies Salon Project
This project focuses on training ladies in hair plaiting as a way for them to earn a living while gaining a valuable practical skill. The target audience is female teenagers who desire neat and smart plaited hairstyles and are also interested in learning how to plait hair themselves. Through this project, they are taught skills they can use to plait and design their friends’ hair for income. During the Fellowship, I successfully trained several girls in different hair plaiting styles. I also improved my own skills by learning new hair techniques from TikTok videos.
About the Millennium Fellow
Gimigu Cicy Omer Ngbanda is a young ,humble and passionate student at Victoria university Kampala Uganda.She was born in South Sudan and is currently staying and studying in Uganda. She has been practising salon activities like braiding,make up for ladies and salon training to her friends,siblings and we'll wishers who have the zeal to learn salon and it's activities since 2023.She plaits different types of hair like afro hair,braided hair and crochet hair styles depending on what each woman is interested in learning .She plans to teach all interested students at her campus how to plait hair for a leaving and also for beauty since women believe hair is part of their beauty .This has been earning her a living and it's been a life skill to her which she feels is important to be passed on to her friends,neighbourhood and all her community and it aligns with SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth.
