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 ARUNIMA MARWAHA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
University of Delhi South Campus | Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Millennium Fellowship offers a network with like-minded change-makers who wish to transform the world into a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable place. I am hoping to connect with successful visionaries, investors, and leaders who have contributed largely to society. Through this network, I can connect, discuss and deliberate with these passionate individuals, interactions with whom shall teach us greatly about the on-ground realities, challenges, and ways to overcome them. To learn from such inspiring individuals is not short of a privilege. To be a Millenial Fellow is an opportunity to embrace challenges and vow to overcome them via community building, movements, and leadership. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Vriti
Despite a diversity of languages in the Indian subcontinent, two languages have become mainstream and determine the access of opportunities and resources in our lives — English and Hindi. For people who are fluent in these languages, government jobs, jobs in large businesses, MNCs etc. are easily available. Even social change movements or bodies of knowledge creation are based in English (or Hindi). This means that people who are fluent in languages other than English and Hindi get left out in contemporary fields such as Artifical Intelligence, cloud technology etc. as well as being up-to-date with socio-cultural movements such as gender sensitivity, queer inclusivity etc. These are the stakeholders of our projects - who encounter various challenges to individual and professional growth in their quest for a better life. These individuals are fluent in regional languages but lack a basic grasp of conventional languages (like English) and the exposure these languages bring with them in terms of education and employment opportunities.
Project Vriti, aims to create modules on social education and basic financial and technical skills in both regional languages and English, to circulate amongst our stakeholders. We believe a community partnership and collaboration with existing NGOs catering to our stakeholders will secure our demographic reach while strengthening the efforts of these NGOs. A partnership of mutual advantage via community building is at the heart of our mission statement.
Our primary stakeholders are students. We plan to cater to two sets of students, namely, a) students in the public education system and b) students of Delhi University. By introducing modules on crucial topics of sex education, gender violence etc. in a language of their convenience we will stimulate them to go beyond the classroom to engage with everyday issues they face. Our secondary stakeholders are a) workers and b) MSMEs. These stakeholders often lack fundamental technical skills such as using Excel for accounting that can not only make them more competent prospective employees but also expand their business’ reach. In essence, we envision a community that is empowered and not oppressed by the reach, access and growth language provides.
About the Millennium Fellow
Arunima (she/they) is a final year undergraduate student majoring in Economics from the University of Delhi, India. Throughout their school and college life, they have been actively involved in a variety of social projects. Be it painting walls in slum clusters, actively sharing COVID-19 resources during the 2nd wave, interviewing prominent LGBTQ+ activists to raise awareness in college, organising fundraisers for beneficiaries of projects under Enactus or surveying rural women for analysis on financial independence, they have always translated their passion for social change to impact-oriented actions. Arunima aspires to join a social-impact organisation after graduation and further pursue a Master’s in development economics to contribute toward achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
