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 SAMIKSHA AGARWAL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law | Patiala, India | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" Change comes from little things.However the impact of these little steps or changes can lead to a better future.Striving towards a utopia word is not the key, however making the current world better is what this Fellowship strive to be.I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow as change is needed for making the society more acceptable and better for our current as well as future generations. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: R.E.A.D.: Redefining Education Amidst Diversity
This project will primarily be responsible for working in 4 spheres and creating Awareness about:
1. Menstrual Hygiene;
2. Governement Schemes;
3. Financial Literacy;
4. Digital Literacy.
5. Gender Diversity.
I will be leading the projet with my focus being on SDG 3 and SDG 4.
This project will have 2 phases to fulfill the first objective:
1. University Premises:
All the low-income earning staff of the University was approached with a sample of sanitary napkins to know their current mentrual practices, educate them of the
consequences of poor menstrual hygiene and make them aware of the existing
scheme. This feedback is yet to be taken of the product offered by the government, the existing problems and taboos that are still there. Alongside this, we attempted to educate them of all the three areas as well.
2. Each one, teach two:
All the professors of the University will be approached and especially the female
professors will be requested to talk to 2 of the domestic helps in their house and tell
them about the scheme, consequences of poor menstrual hygiene and record their
reponse objectively in the google form that shall be circulated to them.
Further, school authorities were contacted and provided with a 2-page basic
guidelines on menstruation, menstrual product and scheme of the governemnt.
The responses were recorded to know the existing state of affairs with regard to
menstruation in India. Stories, posters and videos were used to diseminate the information on all the 4 spheres of the project.
About the Millennium Fellow
Samiksha Agarwal is a student of Rajiv Gandhi National University of law and is currently in her 5th semester.She has been actively participating in various self awareness programmes and is vocal towards gender equality.A Feminist by nature, she is looking forward towards the Millennium Fellowship.She is creative, enthusiastic and an explorer. She firmly believes in equality of everyone and believes that the world will change for better and will be more acceptable towards everyone in the near future.
