ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT DECHEN WANGMO TAMANG, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Azim Premji University Bengaluru | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 9
" I believe that education is key in not giving wings to our youth but helping them discover that their wings already do exist. I have been able to come thus far because I was given the space to discover that words on paper can transcend simple imagination. Being able to help others find their community, create spaces to express themselves, and support them in their journeys to pursue dreams that the rest of us cannot even begin to fathom of is what drives me. It is knowing that there is another child out there, unable to make friends, that wants me to offer them the solace of a library, a quiet book, a world to recognise them as their own. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Home Library (CLC)
I volunteered at the university’s Community Learning Centre to cultivate a love for reading among children by conducting benchmarking and teaching phonics. The project served children of campus support staff and those in the surrounding locality. Through weekly reading sessions, we were able to foster enthusiasm for reading, benchmark several third graders’ reading levels, and provide phonics instruction to a fifth grader, helping them build foundational literacy skills and confidence in their learning journey.
About the Millennium Fellow
Having been brought up from the lap of the Himalayas, Dechen Wangmo Tamang is an avid learner and an appreciator of all things- great and small. She is currently pursuing her bachelor's in English at Azim Premji University. Books have always been a second home to her and she hopes to be able to share this love with as many people as possible- a hope which drives her desire for quality education for all.
