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 PRAJWAL GAUTAM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Kathmandu University | Dhulikhel, Nepal | Advancing SDG 7 & UNAI 9
" The problem we are working on cannot be solved by a small group of people alone, so we will need every available hand and every available skill to make our problem heard. As Millennium Fellowship connects us with people from different fields and helps us gain skills it will be really helpful for us to make our problem visible to a larger audience. Coming from the same community will give me immense pleasure to bring some positive change to my community. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Aghni
This project is based on educating people regarding clean cooking stoves. People in rural villages of Nepal use firewoods as their main source of energy to date. They spend around 5 to 7 hrs daily around 'chulo'(a traditional cooking stove which is placed in the centre of the kitchen cum living room). The 'chulo' used by them makes a lot of smoke which affects their health. The main aim of our project is to teach people about the improvised cooking stove which will not produce smoke and use fewer firewoods. So that we would reduce air pollution, reduce cutting down of trees and reduce lungs related diseases.We will host one-day seminars and workshops in the rural village of the central hilly region of Nepal. There we will make people aware of the health and environmental hazards of the traditional cooking stoves and why we should upgrade to improvised cooking stoves. We will also teach them how to install and maintain these stoves. For this, we will be collaborating with Kathmandu University-Integrated Rural Development Program and Nepal Technology and Innovation Centre. These said organizations will provide us with training on the installation and maintenance of improvised cooking stoves. We are also planning to reach out to Alternative Energy Promotion Centre for aid to distribute some improvised cooking stoves.
About the Millennium Fellow
Prajwal Gautam is an ambitious, passionate and dynamic person pursuing his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was born in a rural village some 100 km far from the capital city, Kathmandu. Though he was raised in Kathmandu, he has seen the hardships an ordinary Nepalese person living in a rural part of the country has to endure due to a lack of basic infrastructure. Having seen the hope for the upliftment of living standards of a community, Prajwal has the deepest desire to bring sustainability and make a positive impact on people's life.
