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 BHAVYA KHARBANDA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
University of Delhi South Campus | New Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Ikhtiyaar
Project Ikhtiyaar is a blend of multiple goals around menstruation. The project aims at educating people around about the importance of menstrual health and switching to economical and sustainable options to deal with menstruation. It also aims to create an impact in the area of waste management, from creating awareness about waste segregation to be able to see active results about the same.
For the timeframe of the fellowship, project aims at impacting two main areas:
1) Creating awareness about the phenomenon, menstrual health, making menstrual products accessible and breaking taboos around it in the slums around campus area. Further hopes to create an impact in proper waste management of sanitary waste, as a sustainable solution.
2) Secondly it aims at educating the already aware youth at campus to switch to an alternate, more sustainable approach. It aims to reduce the wasteful consumption especially of menstrual products like menstrual pads which are non biodegradable, and switching to alternate products which are economical (better consumption) and environment friendly (sustainable).
About the Millennium Fellow
Bhavya Kharbanda is a final year graduate student at Gargi College, University of Delhi. With a deep rooted passion for global cooperation and sustainable progression, she has consistently sought avenues to make a meaningful impact. Her journey has led her to be an active part of international conferences, government institutions, and volunteer work focussing at the just and green transition to the era of future of work, globally. Through her project, she hopes to channel her energies into tangible actions addressing environmental concerns.
