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 SANTHOM J JOSEPH, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 10 & UNAI 5
" "Being a Millennium Fellow will help me to coordinate with like-minded people in an effort to make meaningful change in society. In this process, I will recognize the importance of institutional arrangements in effecting societal change by working in tandem with my teammates. "
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 providing quality education and reducing inequalities.
About the Millennium Fellow
Santhom J Joseph is a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, enrolled in a 5-year postgraduate program in Development Studies. His passion for social rights advocacy has driven him to look for openings and opportunities in social work from a very young age. His priority is to work at the grassroots level to combat the multiple axes of inequalities and oppression that have subdued the creative potential of marginalized groups. He is delighted to be selected into the 2022 Class of UN Millennium Fellows, as it is a splendid opportunity to do meaningful social work and get accustomed to the ground reality.