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 SWATHY SURESH, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 10 & UNAI 5
" If given the appropriate guidance, the dynamic generation could revolutionise the world with their unique skill-sets and immense talent. The ideal route for this is the Millennium Fellowship. As a Millennium Fellow, I will have the opportunity to place my expertise to use while partnering with like-minded individuals. I firmly believe the Millennium Fellowship will help bolster my existing knowledge and skills and direct the road for people to be educated to improve the world. "
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 outline 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 three 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
Swathy Suresh is a bright, self-assured young woman pursuing an integrated master's degree in humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology. She advocates the ouster of control and influence and the liberty of the oppressed. She is incredibly committed to advancing social progress and dispelling detrimental myths and cultural taboos. She is renowned for her leadership capabilities and advocacy, much of which prioritizes the empowerment of women. She has also engaged in a variety of social projects and campaigns organised by her school. Swathy wants to become a social scientist and contribute to significant improvement in the world for all communities.
