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 SAEEDA PERVEEN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Institute of Business Administration Karachi | Karachi, Pakistan | Advancing SDG 1, SDG 5, SDG 11 & UNAI 6
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it offers a platform to turn ideas into sustainable impact, connect with change makers worldwide, and amplify my efforts to empower underserved communities through education, innovation, and advocacy "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Gamburi-Empowering Women of Ghizer Through Embroidery.
Gamburi-meaning "Flower" in a local language in northern Pakistan, is a women-led circular fashion venture that upcycled textile waste into high-quality, handcrafted fashion products. The project collects discarded fabric from thrift stores and textile waste spots in urban cities like Karachi and Lahore, transports it to Ghizer (Gilgit-Baltistan), and transforms it into fashionable tote bags and accessories.
The production is done by trained local women artisans using traditional embroidery techniques such as Iraghi, Qalami, and Zardozi. Each product carries its story — detailing the artisan behind it, the cultural symbolism of the embroidery, and the environmental impact (such as how much textile waste was diverted).
The goal of the project is to reduce textile waste, preserve cultural embroidery heritage, and create sustainable income opportunities for economically excluded women.
About the Millennium Fellow
Saeeda Perveen is an ambitious and enthusiastic student Bachelor of Business Administration at the Institute of Business Administration in Pakistan. She is born and raised in GilgitBaltistan and has devoted her life to making a meaningful difference in underserved populations by innovation and advocacy. Saeeda has been a pioneer of several social initiatives such as the Cycle Care Campaign, that works towards menstrual health education and period poverty, and ShoeGlam, a responsible part of the footwear enterprise and incentivizes mindful consumption. Through her experiences, she shows a keen interest in adhering to the Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations set especially gender equality, good health, and responsible production. Saeeda is an empathic, creative, and strong leader, and once a professional educator and a social entrepreneur equipped with those skills, she is likely to help people develop and inspire other people to make significant changes in life.
