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 IRFAN HUSSAIN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Quaid-i-Azam University | Islamabad, Pakistan | Advancing SDG 13, SDG 11 & UNAI 9
" As a Millennium Fellow, I am excited to collaborate with like-minded changemakers and drive impactful initiatives that align with my passion for poverty and sustainability of climate. This fellowship empowers me to turn my vision into action, creating meaningful change in communities worldwide. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Smog and Life amidst Pollution in Lahore
Lahore is the second largest city of Pakistan, with a 3.06% growth rate [1]. However, according to the United States Air Quality Index (US AQI), it is the third most polluted city in the world, and second in South Asia, only after Delhi [2]. The prominent cause of this air pollution is smog, an “unhealthy air pollution mixed with smoke and fog”. This worsens PM2.5 exposure, and thereby related deaths across all kinds of age groups and sex, surging from 82,300 in 1990 to 1,35,100 in 2015. [3]. This project aims to investigate the social, environmental, and health related impacts of smog in Lahore. Aims It aims to:
1. Critically valuate seasonal changes in primary pollutants.
2. To study the impacts of smog on the larger environment.
3. To determine the issues related to human health Effect of Smog The major cause of the smog is anthropogenic including burning of farmland to increase productivity and wide-spread use of brick kiln factories in the Punjab region. As smog intensifies many problems, it impacts on human health causing nausea, asthma, allergies, and other respiratory and cardio-vascular related issues. It also impacts the functioning of the nervous system, urinary system, digestive system, and generates harmful impacts pregnant women by worsening difficulty in breathing or skin irritation. Smog also affects agricultural land and harms plants [5
About the Millennium Fellow
Irfan Hussain is a young passionate, energetic, competative and positive student. He is doing Bachelor Science (BS) in Economics at the institute of Quaid i Azam university, which is siyuated in Islamabad, Pakistan. He was born in the Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan. In addition, Irfan Hussain has always been passionate about the effect of climate change , and he was ansious about the high rate poverty. The birhth place of Irfan's , is fulfilled with natural resources, like mountains, glaciers, rivers and forest e.t.c. Due to climate change, these all resources was harmfully effected, that is why Irfan want to effective work on climate change with MCN. He also worked to educate people about ho how they will safe their places and themselves from climate change. Furthermore, He was ansious about poverty because in his country the poverty rate was high and peoples were dead from poverty. He also want to work on POVERTY with team MCN.
