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 M TANISHTA VARMAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Sai University | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 5, SDG 4 & UNAI 4

" Being part of this fellowship is a wonderful opportunity I have received and would like
to learn a lot from here . Thinking out of the box , gaining skills that could have impact
and be helpful for others and also learning about the world are few of the many things
I am excited about. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project PonVizhi
Project PonVizhi, consisting of eight undergraduate students, is an organisation that aims to raise awareness about sexual assault, domestic abuse, and child sexual harassment in particular. We aim to educate people on the steps that can be taken to report harassment and seek help in terms of their mental well-being. The target audience of the program is school and college students. When we were school students, there were no committees or legal mechanisms that provided redressals to child sexual harassment survivors or conducted events to spread awareness on gender rights and sexual harassment prevention in our schools or in other educational establishments like coaching centers. Cases of child sexual harassment often go unreported. We seek to raise awareness among kids and young adults (both girls and boys this time, as our educational systems often leave boys out of this) on what counts as harassment, because abuse comes in all forms, and goes much deeper than “good touch and bad touch”. We intend to push educational establishments to have POSH centres. Also, if possible, educate parents, teachers, and guardians on how to respond to children when they confide in them. As a survivor of sexual assault, it is difficult to navigate a world that turns a blind eye towards victims. Through this program, we aspire to create a community that will provide a safe space and support for people, particularly, girls and women who have been through abuse and sexual assault.
About the Millennium Fellow
I M.Tanishta Varman am a young and passionate studnet currently doing her Bachelor
Degree in computer science at Sai University . From a very young age due to reasons I
have seen situtaions of females and have also faced some personally . I have not
ventured fully into the outer world but I can assume it wont be very kind to all girls . I
am not sure how much I can help others but if I am able to bring in any little change or
even build momentum for others to carry on it would wonderful . Though my feild I
hope i could atleast bring in awarness among those who are struggling in any way and
let them that they are never alone and will never be . I trust that with the guidance
from experts I can make such changes possible .








