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 SUMEDH SANDESH PATIL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Symbiosis International (Deemed University) Pune | Pune, India | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 1 & UNAI 3
" I am a firm believer in the idea that quality education has the power to change a society. I have always felt there was an alarming lack of financial literacy topics in elementary and high school curriculums, leaving many young people ill-equipped to meet their financial goals and aspirations. It is for this very reason that I hope to bring a change in the way this topic is approached, and reshaping the narrative around money management and personal finance for adolescents. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Cash Class
We want to teach schoolchildren between standards 8-11 basic financial literacy concepts like interest, rates, basic economics, etc for free. We have devised a curriculum for the same, and have uploaded it in the form of a blog on our website. We want to teach this particular topic, since its not included in the curriculum of more or less all schools across Maharashtra. It is a vital topic which will be helpful in improving financial inclusion, and will hopefully also contribute in reducing financial disparities. We also want to make this available online, and have started with part 1 of 20. However, we hope that through the program, we will be able to publish more engaging content and collaborate with better videographers for live action videos.
About the Millennium Fellow
Sumedh Sandesh Patil is a Second Year student at Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune. He is interested in Finance and Economics, and believes they can be used effectively to reduce the inequalities and social ills prevalent in Indian society. His efforts for spreading basic financial literacy stem from this same belief. Through reading books of leading authors and thinkers in these fields, he has also grown into a major proponent of the "Goodwill Compounding" idea. He has worked in the social service field through the IDEA foundation, and Deccan Animal Welfare Group in the past. He hopes to continue working towards these goals through the Millennium Fellowship and take his efforts to the next level.
