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 BEHAR UL HAYA KABIR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Bahria University Islamabad | Islamabad, Pakistan | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 8 & UNAI 3
" "For me, inclusion and equity in education is a promise born from lived experience. No student should be left behind because of where they were born or the resources around them because education is a right, not a privileged. Through the global community of the Millennium Fellowship, I aim to turn overlooked realities into lasting change by bridging divides and designing inclusive learning spaces where dignity, opportunity and hope belong to all." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: One learning sky
One Learning Sky is a student-led initiative dedicated to bridging the educational, emotional, and professional divides between rural and urban students in Pakistan. The project sheds light on stark disparities in infrastructure, teacher training, and access to digital tools, while also addressing often-overlooked challenges like mental health and career readiness. During the Millennium Fellowship period (August–November 2025), One Learning Sky will directly engage 250+ students and 40+ teachers through school visits, shared classroom workshops, and mental health awareness sessions, while also training 150+ students in career readiness skills such as LinkedIn use, CV/resume building, and online learning. The initiative will launch a Digital Learning Toolkit with open-source lessons and peer-to-peer virtual platforms, and advocate for systemic reform through a policy brief and photo exhibition. Through this work, One Learning Sky aims to create equity in learning, emotional resilience, and pathways to meaningful work, reaching hundreds of students, teachers, and policymakers, and inspiring a movement where every child—wherever they stand—deserves the same horizon.
About the Millennium Fellow
Behar Ul Haya Kabir is an aspiring educationist and third-year English Literature student at Bahria University, Islamabad, who sees education not just as a right, but as a bridge; one that can carry people beyond the boundaries of geography, circumstance and expectation. Raised in a remote village of Kashmir, she witnessed how a lack of access to quality schooling could quietly shape the course of young lives, limiting dreams before they had a chance to grow.
Rather than accept this as unchangeable, Behar turned her own challenges into a compass for change. Her journey, grounded in resilience and empathy, fuels her mission to ensure that no learner’s potential is defined by the map they are born into. Behar aspires to advance her work globally, contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals with a believe that a truly just education system is one where every child, whether from a bustling city or a quiet village, stands under the same wide sky of possibility and has the tools to reach it.
