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 ZOYA ALMAS, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Fatima Jinnah Medical University | Lahore, Pakistan | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 5
" I am excited to use the Millennium Fellowship as a platform to do some good for my community. This opportunity allows me to educate children about their life decisions while being guided by mentors myself. It gives me the chance to create a domino effect, where changing the life of one child impacts the generations following them. Alone, I may not be able to change the world, but I can cast a stone across my generation to create ripples. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Every YOU Matters
Team Millenium Fellows comprising of 9 set off their plans and start their execution in the early fellowship month of August 2022. Our first project was on Career Counselling, it was planned to target the students at our University and the school-going children. To make them aware of the career opportunities available to them and how to get benefited from them. Therefore, millennium fellows decided to do that job first. For that, we divide the topics among ourselves, researched them and prepare the slides. Afterwards, a nearby college for women only named ‘Gov. Jinnah Associate College for Women, Mozang, Lahore’ is reached out to. We went there for permission with an MCN LetterHead. All the journey to make a change in our surroundings.
Our second project was on health issues. So, being medical students, what would be more concerning us than addressing the health challenges and concerns prevailing in our daily lives? Therefore, we’ve decided to opt for the highly discussed and less cited topic of the day, Planetary Health, a multidisciplinary approach to address climate change, the biggest challenge of the twenty-first century.
We have planned to organise the workshop titled Planetary Health for All PH4A in our university for medical students so that they know what this topic is about. With some handful of activities on how to use the 3 R’s (Reduce, Reuse & Recycle) in their lives that workshop is planned to be executed. However, our main target audience is medical students of our university, so we can create Planetary Health awareness for future healthcare leaders and have a long-lasting effect for the years ahead.
About the Millennium Fellow
Zoya Almas, a confident, diligent, and persevering second year international student at Fatima Jinnah Medical University. She was a former student of Honours Bachelor of Life Science at the University of Toronto before being accepted into medical school in Pakistan.
She spent most of her student life in Canada, where she participated in numerous social activities, welfare events, and mentorship programs. These events sparked her passion for community work and making a change in the quality of life for people, especially children around her.
Driven by this motivation, she started her own tutoring program for elementary to high school children, and worked with the MindYourMind team to create a self-discovery journal for individuals of all age.
Zoya aims to use her optimistic and comitted attitude to continue to make a positive impact for individuals in her society.
