ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT PRAGYA GUPTA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law | Patiala, India | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
Millennium Fellowship Project: Pragya Gupta
Project TABOO centres around making school children equipped with recognising abuse, tackling self-harm with alternative means of expressing aggression, and reaching out to the correct people for help. It will also sensitise teachers so as to be able to guide children that reach out. This aspect of TABOO will be worked on in Patiala and Amritsar.
The second objective of the project is to ensure an adequate number and types of mental health professionals for the university students so that taking therapy in university is not a pipedream for the financially weak or busy. Further, founding a support group for addicts who want to leave substance abuse with a proper moderator is also a goal so as to make the campus truly addiction free.
About the Millennium Fellow
Pragya Gupta is a second-year law student at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala. She is passionate about the work she does with children who have experienced emotional and physical violence, and she hopes to help change laws that don't protect them.
Pragya has worked with children in India since she was 16 years old. She has seen first-hand how abuse can ruin a child's life and lead to a lifetime of trauma. Her passion project is about emotional and physical violence against children: she wants to change laws that don't protect them from this kind of abuse, so that future generations can live without fear and pain.
When she isn't studying for exams or helping people in her community, Pragya enjoys exercising outdoors, listening to music, playing video games with friends, reading books on psychology and history, cooking Indian food with her family (they love spicy dishes), traveling around the world.
