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 MIR ZAFAR UL ZAMAN KAMILI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Kashmir | Srnigar, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3

" I’m excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it gives me the chance to turn my passion for education into real action. Empowering underprivileged children with quality education is a cause close to my heart, and this fellowship provides the platform to collaborate with like-minded individuals and amplify my efforts. I believe education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, and through the Millennium Fellowship, I hope to not only impact my community but also grow as a leader and advocate for change. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Quality Education for All
"Quality Education for All" is a transformation program instituted to provide opportunity and opportunities to disadvantaged children attending community schools to meet high standards in schools. These children are highly disadvantaged in schools because such schools lack proper resources and systems to support them or other infrastructural facilities that would facilitate learning. The program will fill those gaps through the provision of customized resources in the form of educational material, personalized tutoring, and after-school programs that focus more on excellence both in academic and life skills.
It will also be based on the premise that quality education goes way beyond books, ensuring wholesome growth through the development of critical thinking, creativity, and emotional consciousness. It will create a support system involving families, peer mentors, and fellow classmates in helping each student gain and develop a balanced education as well through its partnership with a local school and its teachers and community leaders.
In addition to that, this work is an opportunity to gain self-confidence and learn aspects of leadership among children so that they can have a chance otherwise unattainable for themselves. The goal is not merely the change in academic results but arming our children with skills and an outlook that may well allow them to maneuver their environment better and get free from this bondage of poverty.
This project will make real the future in which the child of a better household receives a quality education hallmark that leads the way to success and sustainability in his or her name. As this initiative focuses on sustainable systems as the catalyst for quality education everywhere else under-resourced communities, it wants to reach the pinnacle with the notion that no child has to be left behind.
About the Millennium Fellow
Zafar Kamili is a fourth-year law student at the School of Law, University of Kashmir, with a deep passion for social justice and community service. Selected for the Millennium Fellowship Class of 2024, Zafar is leading a project to improve the quality of education for children in community schools, particularly those from underprivileged backgrounds. His leadership experience, commitment to impactful change, and dedication to empowering marginalized communities reflect his drive to make a meaningful difference.


