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 MRINMAYEE NIKHIL KULKARNI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 10, SDG 4 & UNAI 5
" Creating a social impact and helping people are the two reasons that fuelled me to become the person I am. The skills gained in this semester will be priceless for further endeavors as they teach you empathy, leadership, and teamwork. This Fellowship will also help in creating a worldwide network of like-minded individuals which will encourage us to do more and better. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Kalvi
The main goal of Project Kalvi (translated as "Education" in Tamil) is to uncover and disseminate information about the career options available to high school students from low-income areas who are frequently devoid of such basic and crucial knowledge due to low levels of information penetration in low-income families. Through the initiative, we will host informational seminars for high school students at government schools in relatively rural areas around Chennai. We will lay out the opportunities and options for these students' prospects in these sessions. In addition to these seminars, we will provide the students with access to information on relevant grants and scholarships that they could later apply for, information that they are unlikely to discover on their own. Project Kalvi will visit at least 3 schools between August and December 2022, the time frame of the Millennium Fellowship. The conferences will be conducted in both English and Tamil, and at their conclusion, we will share resources that the Project Kalvi team would have researched and developed. By the end of the Fellowship time, the project has at least 100 students as its target. These educational seminars will aid students from low-income households in relatively rural locations in closing the knowledge gap between themselves and their more affluent metropolitan counterparts in order to achieve the sustainable development goal of quality education and reducing inequalities.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mrinmayee Kulkarni is a student at IIT Madras currently enrolled in a 5 year integrated MA program. Mrinmayee has always been passionate about women's status in society and wants to improve their social, political, and financial position in India. As a woman herself, she understands the plights faced by women and that is why her project is focused on helping women become financially independent. She is extremely dedicated, hardworking, and compassionate in her approach. She plans to pursue the degree of women's studies and also start a NGO specifically catered towards helping victims of rape and domestic violence.