ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT MANOJ, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Azim Premji University Bengaluru | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 10, SDG 17 & UNAI 3
" Being a Millennium Fellow will provide me a great opportunity to join change makers of the community. I am thrilled to use this platform to learn new things, foster meaningful connection and contribute to give better shape to the new world, by connecting (sharing experiences and solutions) to people from the backward regions of other countries. Happy to implement positive things to my project after learning from the Millennium Fellowship. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Community Learning Centre-Panchayat Library
The Community Learning Centre and Panchayat Library are ongoing projects under the Community Engagement Initiative of Azim Premji University. In CLC, we teach the children of our support & security staff and the migrant workers in our community with their academics. With the CLC, we are trying to maximize the use of the university resources while engaging the students in out-of-school learning through various activities. In the Panchayat Library, we visit the Panchayat Libraries in our neighborhood villages, engage the children of the neighborhood in fun activities, and help them with their academics, such as Maths and English. Recognizing that most children in the villages study in Kannada medium, we have interactive activities to expose them more to English, making them more comfortable with learning the language. Now, we are exploring the inclusion of art activities to understand and encourage the children’s interests, creativity and self-expression.
About the Millennium Fellow
Manoj is from the Barmer district of Rajasthan (India). He belongs to a middle class farmer family and doing his Bachelor of Arts in the Economics from Azim Premji University, Bangalore. He completed his schooling (From 6th to 12th) from Jawaher Navodaya Vidyalaya, Barmer which provides totally free and quality education to students specially from rural backgrounds in India. He is a perfect examples to others in pursuing higher study from a good institute because being from a backward region he faced issues related to education, transportation, and water scarcity. He led a scout team as captain in his school and also participated in many co-curricular activities like music and sports. Now in the University, he is coordinating the Community Learning Center, Economics Club, Disability and Inclusion Committee, etc. He did student assistantship in the sports and Fitness committee for 6 months. He has successfully organized many events on the campus like the campus fest, freshers
party, convocation program, and many more. He has good leadership qualities. He did a Social Audit with the Social Audit Team in Karnataka as a part of his Interdisciplinary study course. He also has a teaching experience.
