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 BINAYAK RAY APU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology | Sylhet, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 3
" Having the chance to be a Millennium Fellow is extremely motivating for me since it will introduce me with other motivated change makers all over the world who are committed to social development. Being an individual of Sunamganj area, I have witnessed the inability of the regional development due to both systemic issues and natural disasters, particularly in the field of education. A current problem that I would like to solve is the emergence of the teenage gang culture, where young learners find themselves involved in violations and crimes that lead to loss of their futures. This drives me to act towards real change by means of local action, participation of young people, and policy influencing. The Fellowship will enhance my leadership, increase my networks and magnify my ability to make lasting change. As a team, we will be able to develop better, fairer, and stronger societies in the future. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Learning Seed
Our project “The Learning Seed” was designed to help the underprivileged children of a marginalized village named Tior Gaon for our initiative where poverty-stricken families live at a subsistence level. Millennium Fellows of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology participate in this initiative directly in the families to facilitate Quality Education (SDG 4). As we are all students, we, unfortunately, couldn't do much for the children due to financial constraints. However, we purchased pen, writing sheets and some chocolates as a mood-booster and distributed among the children. Later, we met the parents and engaged in an inclusive discussion about the importance of education as well as its private and social benefits to spread awareness among them. By promoting both educational resources and awareness, Learning Seed plants the foundation for sustainable change, stronger communities, and brighter futures aligned with SDG 4.
About the Millennium Fellow
Binayak Ray Apu is a 4th year Social Work student at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. He come Sunamganj ,a disaster prone region of Bangladesh. Out of his community issues, he has engaged in academic fieldwork among ethnic minorities and set up of health camps. He has been associated with Transparency International Bangladesh over a year, is an active volunteer of" Youth for Policy "and is a Campus Ambassador of FutureNation (UNDP supported project). Most recently, he participated in the Aspire Leaders Program organized by the Harvard University, a program that aims at empowering the youth with a low-income status and seeking solutions to social development.
