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 MD. SHAMS AL RUBAYET, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Bangladesh Maritime University | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 14 & UNAI 9
" “Creative and deep thinking, adaptability, hard working, leadership” are the keys of mine to be succeed in any works. Being a Millennium Fellow, all of those skills will be enriched and I can get more necessary skills to get more success. And the whole experiences and abilities I will get from Millennium Fellowship will certainly help me to contribute in the development of the United Nations’ Sustainable Goals and Sustainable Development Goals. Here I will be found with high interest to gain new experiences with more skills, creativity and learning. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: AquaRevive
Project Name: AquaRevive
Subtitle: Reviving Dhaka's Waterways through Pollution Awareness and Community Action.
Project Description:
AquaRevive is a Millennium Fellowship project. It is initiated by a team of 4 members from Bangladesh Maritime University. The subtitle of our program is Reviving Dhaka's Waterways through Pollution Awareness and Community Action, Through this we want to focus on protecting and revitalizing our natural resources. Bangladesh is enriched with lots of waterways including rivers, lakes, ponds, canals etc. We are solely dependent on this natural resources. Here's Dhaka is our main city with overly crowded population. But it is now highly affected by pollution due to various reasons like human wastages, industrial effluents and other anthropogenic causes due to lack of awareness. Through AquaRevive, we aim to create a meaningful awareness among them. We will make awareness to the people about the hazardous effects of water pollution, how it is affecting aquatic life also human lives and encourage the community to change.
Our activities will include visiting various waterways in Dhaka city or near Dhaka , where we will connect local communities. We are aiming to do at least 4 events where we will engage the local community through awareness campaign. We will supply posters, leaflets, thematic arts highlighting the impacts of water pollution. We will have community discussions on mitigation efforts, what measures should be taken etc. Action oriented outreach where motivating people to adopt the sustainable habits and discourage them to do any practices which is harmful for the waterways and the aquatic lives.
Our target is to connecting at least 200+ individuals during this program, sparkling a positive effect of knowledge sharing and behavioral changes. By combining awareness, community participation and sustainable suggestions, AquaRevive directly aligns with SDG 14. Also connects SDG 6 & 11. We hope that it will lead us to have a healthier, cleaner environment in Dhaka's waterways. Sustainable eco sustainable us!
About the Millennium Fellow
Md. Shams Al Rubayet is an intelligent, humble, young guy and a student of Department of Marine Fisheries & Aquaculture in Bangladesh Maritime University. He was born in Rangpur, Bangladesh. His childhood and up to intermediate studies have been completed in Rangpur. Now he resides and currently studying in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rubayet has always been passionate about the Fisheries sector of Bangladesh. As a fisheries student , from the beginning of his undergraduate studies, he marked many key problems of fisheries sector and is trying how to solve them. He is very focused on the “Sustainable Development Goals 14- Life Below Water” which can be very much affected by “UNAI 9: Sustainability” Academic Impact Principles. He has taken many plans, solving initiatives and some projects procedures with great vision and mission. With his outstanding leadership, hard working , deep thinking mindset he will certainly contribute and remark in the development of the United Nations’ Sustainable Goals and will make history one day from Bangladesh.
