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 PARRISHA JAIN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Netaji Subhas University of Technology | New Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 11 & UNAI 6
" Empathy and action drive my commitment to building cleaner, more sustainable communities and ensuring every girl has access to education. The Millennium Fellowship will equip me with the skills and network to scale my initiatives in waste management, food redistribution, and education advocacy. By collaborating with passionate peers worldwide, I aim to design innovative, community-led solutions that align with the UNAI principles and SDGs. This experience will strengthen my ability to create measurable, lasting change while inspiring others to take action for a better, more equitable future. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Wellbeing Out of Waste (WOW)
I am an Environment Warrior or a Community Organizer for ITC's Well-being Out of Waste (WOW) initiative. I work to spread awareness about the importance of segregation of waste into wet and dry at the source. The sources of waste could be homes or neighbourhoods. Waste segregation is important for several reasons, as it helps manage waste efficiently, reduces environmental pollution, and promotes sustainability. It also reduces burden on landfills and waste, lowering methane emissions and slowing climate change. Waste segregation is a two step process. Firstly, In my neighbourhood I spread awareness amongst the residents on the importance of waste segregation and help executing it. Secondly, we work with local municipalities, like the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to train waste workers and rag-pickers in the concept of waste segregation to ensure an efficient waste collection system. The waste that is segregated into wet and dry is then further converted into compost or recycled. This reduces the amount of waste going to landfills, provides raw material to several industries through dry waste collected, ensures regular work & income for waste collectors and generates new opportunities for waste recycling entrepreneurs. Successful waste segregation leads to a zero waste society.
About the Millennium Fellow
Parrisha Jain is a socially conscious undergraduate student from India, passionate about sustainable waste management and girls’ education. She has led community initiatives in waste segregation, composting, and food redistribution through the Robin Hood Army. Equally committed to education equity, she donates resources, tutors underprivileged girls, and has successfully helped girls enroll in school. Parrisha aspires to work in a professional space where she can scale her initiatives, integrating innovation with community engagement to address both environmental and social challenges. She is committed to contributing toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, leaving a tangible and lasting impact.
