ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.

UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT DEVDHIR SINGH, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Christ (Deemed to be University) Central Campus | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 9 & UNAI 9

" The Millennium Fellowship provides an unmatched opportunity to young people across the world, seeking not just an education but practical experiences in the real world. The aim of Ekta is to foster values essential to India, as well as South Asia at large, such as the need for empathy, interfaith dialogue and the role of communal harmony in ensuring socio-economic progress. The Millennium Fellowship will ensure personal development and growth, while also translating into positive benefits for disadvantaged communities. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Sustenance
Project Sustenance at its base is a project aimed at spreading awareness about sustainable living. Small and easy everyday habits are the stepping stones toward sustainable development and our focus will be on equipping young minds with the same.
Sustainability is especially crucial in this era, coupled with individual actions and efforts that ultimately contribute to the establishment of improved methods to develop communities, especially in disadvantaged and often underprivileged societies in the Global South. In India, for example, the mean contribution to the carbon footprint is far less than the average citizen of a high-income country in the West. Therefore, this project will enable those involved, as well as others, to identify closely with such ideals, effectively work on the same and bring forth much-needed change.
The project aims at inculcating values of sustainability in school-going children from semi-urban areas in Bengaluru. Through activities and awareness sessions, we plan to focus on the 3Rs, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. These activities will inculcate notions of a more sustainable present and future. One activity that will help demonstrate sustainable living would be teaching children about segregating everyday waste into wet and dry waste. Teaching them the importance of this segregation would also involve helping them identify the difference and subsequently, the benefits of composting. Another activity to both encourage creativity & repurpose waste materials, would be converting colorfully painted plastic bottles into flower pots filled with water-based low maintenance plants such as money plants, to teach school children the importance of nurturing plant growth through an enjoyable painting activity.
The most fundamental aspect of Project Sustenance is the fact that it creates meaningful change at a grassroots level. By introducing the concept of 'sustainability' to young minds, we take the first step in ensuring that these ideas become internalized. In this way, Project Sustenance is sustainable in itself, i.e., such ideas can be passed onto other students, their families, and so on. Waste segregation, reducing, reusing and recycling and sustainability are the first steps to a better, healthier and greener world, for us as well as generations to come.
About the Millennium Fellow
Devdhir Singh is an undergraduate student at Christ University, Bengaluru, pursuing a triple major in Psychology, Sociology and English Literature. As someone deeply interested in and passionate about current affairs, global developmentals and dynamic changes occuring in contemporary times, as well as the impact such events will have on Gen-Z and subsequent generations, Devdhir was attracted at the prospects and opportunities the UN Millennium Fellowship will provide, especially to create a practical and real-world impact. Devdhir grew up across India, attending various schools in different states, which provided him with experiences related to communal harmony and intersectional unity, an oft-controversial yet significant topic in a multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual nation such as India.
Devdhir's project, Ekta, shall primarily focus on spreading awareness related to communalism and the spread of political marginalisation of disadvantaged communities, especially among school-going children exposed to misinformation at an impressionable age. This project takes into consideration contemporary discussions on religion, language, caste and other important identity markers, aiming to foster the value of fraternity. Such education is necessary to aid the United Nations' Sustainability Goals, to drive unity and economic progress in emerging economies.








