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 TARUN TYAGI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University | Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 10 & UNAI 2
" In the area of social impact initiatives, we are often baffled by the taboo of lack of willingness in the youth to bring change through their academic and social contributions but the Millennium Fellowship of the United Nations Academic Impact is a program that breaks those inhibitions. MCN not only provides us the opportunity to 'GLOBAL' but to also see the effects of social impact in other parts of the world as well. It tells us that it is the 'YOUTH' only who can and will provide us with the solution to contemporary problems. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: UNGAPPED US
In this project, I am planning to remove the increased gap between rich and poor. I know it's not a task that can be completed in just August to December but we take a projected number to help them no matter whatsoever.
So I think the root cause of every problem is poverty but the cause I envision here is increased inequalities- it is a result of all the problems one can think of this gap continue to widen, What I am proposing is we will reach out to 50-100 Houses. Considering one house as an individual entity we will try to raise their income level, educational level, reach to good health level.
(Example) (May involve different case scenario)This would be done in the following way-Suppose in a family there are 5 members - Mother, Father, One Sister(Age10), One Brother(Age 10) and Another brother(Above 18).
This family lives in a tent no member has ever attended school and the father does the unskilled work. We will approach this family under 'Ungapped Us'. We will collect the info on how do they earn, what is there current income level and like that. Then we will, first of all, help them have the essential social documents without which you can't have any benefit. After having that we will enrol both the sister and brother aged 10 to get enrolled to the nearest government school and have all the clothes books, bags as provided by the government. Then we will have the Father, Mother and Son(Aged above 18) enrol themselves in 'Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana' nearest Training Centre. We will have them learn the skills through which they can earn money in the formal sector with their skill. Then we will have them enrolled on the 'National Food Security Card' through which they will be given food for sustenance. Supposing all the families we approach are BPL then we will approach the jurisdictional government on available housing issues and if possible a house for them could be made available to the government. Then we will have them insured health-wise at government expense under the ' Ayushmaan Jan Arogya Yojana'
We will take this project on Two fronts first either fieldwork or Research on that selected population and submission of that research report to government authorities. We might pursue both in a Non-Covid Situation at that time.
Our primary goal is to reach out to people of a selected area and help them to come into the mainstream. It might involve different strategies but the main goal is capacity building and reducing inequalities through skill development and all other measures.
About the Millennium Fellow
Tarun Tyagi is an undergraduate student of Law at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. He grew up beating the odds of barely continuing his primary education but was later awarded a scholarship for pursuing his dream of higher education. Fighting those odds he contemplated bringing a change in society through Law. He founded a social impact group 'The Greatest Hand' with a focus on SDG 10 having a vision of reducing social and economic disparity. For his incessant contributions to society, he was selected as an alternate candidate to study in the USA under a Student Exchange Program at the behest of World Learning and the US Department of State. He strives to be a lone maverick of change in society through his explicable contributions to the field of Constitutional and International Law.
