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 RUBAMA AKBAR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Institute of Business Administration Karachi | Karachi, Pakistan | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" Being brought up in Chitral, I was exposed to the concept of sustainability as not a choice, but as a lifeline. My working aim and passion can be described as knowing that even the most taken-for-granted resources can be change inducing through innovation and community mindedness. With the help of the Millennium Fellowship, I would get the stage to enhance my leadership and improve the effectiveness of the ‘Reservoirs of Hope,’ to connect my work to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, so that the voices of people in the disconnected territories could reach the global audience platform. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Aik Boondh
Aik Boondh (One Drop) is a youth-based environmental project focused on solving water and waste mismanagement issues in underprivileged communities of Pakistan, specifically Chitral. The project facilitates the reuse of sewage water in agriculture using low-cost, natural filtration systems made from sand, gravel, charcoal, and local plants. Through education, the project helps convert wastewater into a safe irrigation source, turning barren land fertile and enhancing food security. It is a mix of community education, environmental innovation, and social empowerment, contributing to SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
About the Millennium Fellow
Rubama Akbar is an economics student, who studies at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. She is born in the mountainous area of Pakistan, called Chitral, which is very far. Her interest in sustainability grew when she was a child and saw the contrast of need and waste in major cities at the same time that her family experienced water scarcity. Later after the occurrence of devastating floods that displaced communities in 2016, she established an NGO known as the “Earth's Lovers” to supply clean water and food to the affected families. She is now the director of the program called “Reservoirs of Hope,” which promotes youth empowerment and mental health in rural schools. Rubama aims to enlarge her reach and foster the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations through the Millennium Fellowship.
