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 SHAMIN ROWNOK SARDER, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Bangladesh Maritime University | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 8, SDG 5, SDG 11 & UNAI 6
" Various skills with numerous minds, create unimaginable solutions, the impossibilities becomes possible. With Millennium Fellowship, I will meet those enthusiastic minds and amazing peoples, with numerous skills, and a common goal, to impact the society, create a better world. My search for such a platform to meet and showcase my skills, has come to and end with the beginning of a new journey. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Expanding Mobile Banking for Underprivileged Women
Mobile banking is one of the most user-friendly financial technologies of our time. However, in Bangladesh ,especially in the urban slums of central Dhaka, most underprivileged women lack adequate knowledge and skills to use it. As a result, they often rely on others for financial transactions, which increases their dependency and limits their financial independence. This project seeks to understand how many percentages women in Dhaka’s urban slums use mobile banking, identifying both the purposes of usage and the barriers faced by those Who do not use Mobile banking. As we want to take initiate to teach non-users based on the survey findings, the initiative aims to promote financial inclusion and empower women by encouraging their active use of mobile banking services. Through awareness workshops and hands-on training, women will learn to use Mobile
banking for safe transactions, savings and small business activities. In addition,
selected women will be trained and supported to become local mobile banking agents.
This will allow female users to access cash-out and other financial services directly
from women within their own community, reducing dependency on male agents.
By building women’s confidence in digital finance, creating pathways for women-led
entrepreneurship and generating income opportunities, this project will strengthen
community-based financial services and contribute to greater economic empowerment in slum areas.
About the Millennium Fellow
Shamin Rownok, a passionate and enthusiastic oceanography student, has always been a genius mind, looking for social problems and solutions. With his sharp mind and keen ability to connect the society with pure academics, he always tried to solve the issues, abstaining people from a smooth and risk-free livelihood. With this view, from the early stages of his school and college days, he’s been involved himself with various voluntary community work. Through outstanding leadership and acute management skills, he has successfully contributed at many social platforms with various visions, having one common goal, reaching the SDG’s by United Nations, for the betterment of mass people.
