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 PRAGNYATH RATHNAKARAM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Gujarat National Law University Gandhinagar | Gandhinagar, India | Advancing SDG 2, SDG 11 & UNAI 9
" Being a Millenneum Fellow excites me as it enhances my ability to develop sustainable solutions and understand how it works at a micro level. It offers me a platform to learn from diverse, passionate individuals globally, and world-class training, global networking to create a tangible social impact uplifting my community. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sujalam - Suphalam Project (Good Water-Good Food)
The project aims to promote water-conservation and sustainable use of water resources through simple and easily repeatable solutions and alleviate hunger. The focus is on the rural and backward pockets of my home state, Andhra Pradesh which are mostly agrarian in nature. My project has two components to it: 1) Kitchen Gardens
This involves creating an organic backyard garden for each house where vegetables will be grown. The gardens will have a variety of plants that will provide some nutritious food, as well as increase the fertility of the soil. The water used in cooking and other house-work will be filtered and directed into the garden via strategically installed pipes. In addition, rain-water collected from the rooftops will also be strategically directed into the garden. I will install easy-to-make filtering systems with pipelines for the rain-water harvesting. This will enable the family to be independent for food and also earn money by selling the extra produce they grow.
2) Mud-based Rainwater Reservoirs
The “Rainwater Reservoirs” are an area created to collect and conserve rain-water. They will be used by the people in the drought stricken areas in times of need, particularly during the dry season when there is very little water available.
About the Millennium Fellow
Pragnyath Rathnakaram is a hard-working and highly motivated Law and Commerce student at Gujarat National Law University. He volunteers with Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust a humanitarian organisation accredited by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in India, particularly in areas of water conservation. He has witnessed firsthand how simple, sustainable solutions can significantly improve the quality of life in underdeveloped communities.
Pragnyath aspires to leverage his background in law and commerce to lead awareness and hands-on initiatives aimed at empowering rural populations around his village by helping them become legally informed and financially independent, fostering long-term positive change.
