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 SADIYA FAROOQ MASOODI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Cluster University Srinagar | Srinagar, India | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" As a girl , you are challenged everyday by the society and it's people. They never let you feel equal or valuable but you are reminded everyday that you are a girl , you are not equal, you can do nothing except the household chores. So from my childhood it was my dream to prove myself, to make my parents feel proud. It's a slap for those who told my father once that you have two daughters and they are your liability. So this selection means alot for me .
And I do what I do because it makes me feel responsible enough. When I go to bed at night I feel satisfied that at least I am contributing my society. I don't want to sit like a bean bag at home . "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Empowering through education
My project was about empowering through education. In Kashmir and I believe in major parts of the third world countries children suffer to get their basic education especially a girl child . I researched about it how i can help students/ children so what I did was i applied for a job of a coordinator in an NGO . They interviewed me and after some days I got the confirmation mail . The NGO name is Hope works foundation. It's original branch is in Bangalore and they have 13 other branches all across India . This was there first branch in Kashmir. They basically bare all the educational funds of a girl child . They ensure that it all is taken care . Not only that there is a sunday session every week held by my senior and me online with the banglore team . First I created google forms , sent them in different groups and on online platforms I got 210 registrations . According to the eligibility criteria i could only select 50 out of them as clearly all of them didn't need the scholarship. Then there was an interview round for the girls about 30 girls came for interview. I made it very clear to each and every girl that it is mandatory to attend the Sunday session every week transportation fee and food will be taken care of by us . Out of those 30 only 14 were confirmed.
We are running this program currently. In our sunday session we teach them about AI and other new rising technologies.
About the Millennium Fellow
Sadiya is a curious, passionate and dedicated science student, who loves the research work and want to dig deep into the mysteries of science. Sadiya was born in Srinagar Kashmir India on 7 oct 2004 . Growing up in a middle class family sadiya learned a lot of great things from her parents. Not only focusing on the academic part sadiya constantly took part in volunteering programs and is now excelling.
She is the General Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Students Association, a Media Coordinator, Social Media Manager and an Executive in Jammu and Kashmir Centre For peace and justice. Sadiya wants to contribute in the society by making a positive change and wants to work in both academic as well as in extra curricular fields
