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 RIDHIKA KOLLIMAKAL REJI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
St. John’s Medical College | Bangalore, India | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" Excited to meet like-minded people whose suggestions and experiences will immensely help in building up the skills that is required to develop me to put in my own contributions for values that I believe are of utmost importance in the world through projects and the profession that I've choosen to work in.
This leadership development program, I believe, would empower students to advance UN goals -being sustainable energy and offering equal opportunities to better lifestyles-on the various communities we plan to work with. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Clothes For A Change
This project was brainstormed after identifying the amount of useable clothes that have been thrown out once students have ether shifted rooms or have left the hostel.
Our vision: To see that we reduce wastage annually, and therefore be able to provide clothes for as many unprivileged people in Bengaluru.
Our mission: To persuade more students to understand the importance of donation and encourage giving back to society and uplift those below the poverty line.
Our methodology: Every year College students begin with X number of clothes. By the end of year, we are left with X+Y clothes, only to buy another Z number of clothes for the upcoming year and then not wear the old ones ever again. Instead, we believe we can set up cloth donation boxes on every floor of the hostel, collect as many clothes, bedsheets, cloth covers, shoes as possible every 2-3 months, and donate it to charities and orphanages in and around Bengaluru. College clothes mostly comprise of kurtis which a lot of us students are unlikely to re-wear on a long-term basis. Hence donation is the perfect way to ensure they don’t go to waste. Those below the poverty line cannot afford basic clothing or bedsheets to cover themselves especially in the cold weather on the streets, hence these clothes would mean a lot for them. Within our hospital campus itself, next to kin of patients usually wait outside and sleep on the pavements nearby, for whom these clothes and bedsheets would be of great help. Our job would be to ensure the given clothes are in good condition, have been ironed and neatly kept for the recipients.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ridhika Reji is a 3rd year medical student at St John's Medical College.
She was born in India, brought up in Qatar and is currently residing in Bangalore, India. She has always been passionate about balancing the line of profession she has choosen with the social justice, ethics and women rights of the patients she comes in contact through her work.
Since both goes under in hand, she is driven to widen her knowledge and experiences through projects such as one offered by MCN.
She believes that Millennium Fellowship would give her a wider opportunity to meet like minded people whose ideas and suggestions would immensely help in directing the project to its actual goal.
Through the connections that it offers, she would be able to meet more communities that the project targets to help. She aspires to bring in about her own contributions in the development of UN's sustainable goals.