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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT THANMAYEE KAVURI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

Georgia Institute of Technology | Georgia, United States | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 10, SDG 11, SDG 17 & UNAI 9

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" I'm excited to learn more about the UNAI and SDG principles through the Millennium Fellowship to further integrate them into my own humanitarian engineering project. I can't wait to collaborate with other like-minded individuals to drive social impact across interdisciplinary areas on campus. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Expanding Access to Healthcare Infrastructure in Ecuador

Situated between the coastal and highland regions of Ecuador, Santo Domingo is home to over 500,000 residents in the country’s agricultural and transportation hub. Poverty in the area has led to poor health outcomes, including an acute increase in food insecurity, malnutrition, and drug use. In the face of these inequities, Hombro a Hombro is a nonprofit healthcare clinic that stands firm as the first and only line of defense for the majority of residents. They’re not just physicians prescribing medicine; they’re a pillar of support, combating domestic abuse, conducting home visits to impaired patients, supporting families experiencing overcrowding, and everything in between. Yet there’s still work to be done. There are approximately 50,000 potential patients in the surrounding area, but Hombro a Hombro can only see a fraction of that, around 10,000 patients annually. The neighborhood has outgrown local resources, with a major bottleneck being a lack of infrastructure. And that’s where Engineers Without Borders-Georgia Tech (EWB-GT) comes in. Our project aims to bridge this gap by constructing a kitchen to lead nutrition classes and a children's waiting space for children to stay while their parents are seen by clinic staff.

About the Millennium Fellow

Thanmayee Kavuri is a rising senior at Georgia Tech studying Biomedical Engineering. Thanmayee spent her past two summers working in the medical device industry, first at a small Atlanta-based startup and then at Johnson & Johnson. Throughout her undergrad, Thanmayee has been heavily involved with Student Government, GT Student Ambassadors, and Engineers Without Borders (EWB). Her first glimpse into the world of humanitarian work was through EWB, where she is currently partnering with a nonprofit healthcare clinic in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, on a healthcare infrastructure project. This was her first exposure to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals which she hopes to emulate in her future career. Beyond her interests in humanitarian engineering and community-based health, Thanmayee loves a weekend farmer's market, reading, frolicking in Piedmont Park, and trying new restaurants to add to her Beli account. 

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