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 KRISTYNA SIMONOVA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Sciences Po Le Havre | Le Havre, France | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 2
Millennium Fellowship Project: Bridges Not Borders
Bridges not Borders aims to build bridges between immigrant women and the local community and institutions in which they are now building their lives. Immigrant women in France are often extremely isolated because of language barriers, cultural traditions and educational disparities. These factors also influence the prejudices associated with immigrant women and harm not only their long-term sustainable integration in the local community but also their mental health and individual wellbeing. We founded this initiative to take a multifaceted approach corresponding to UNSDG 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), 5 (Gender Equality) and 10 (Reduced Inequalities) by increasing financial literacy, access to knowledge about administrative procedures and healthcare, and simultaneously tackling isolation by nurturing a community of support and understanding, not only amongst immigrant women but also between them and the local population.
About the Millennium Fellow
Kristyna Simonova is an undergraduate student at Sciences Po in France. Kristyna believes in a bottom-up approach and importance of individual action. Through her project, conducted with a few of her friends, she hopes to help her community in the port city of Le Havre. Their project titled correspondingly Bridges not Borders aims to focus on the immigrant women and their struggle of being incorporated into the French society.
