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 NUPUR KHANOM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology | Sylhet, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 3
" I am truly excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it provides a unique platform to engage with a global network of passionate and socially conscious young leaders. This Fellowship allows me not only to strengthen my leadership and project management skills but also to collaborate across borders to address pressing global challenges. My motivation for doing this work comes from a deep commitment to advancing inclusive development, empowering marginalized communities, and contributing to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I believe that the Fellowship will enable me to transform my academic knowledge and social initiatives into meaningful, sustainable impact for the communities I deeply care about. "
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
Nupur Khanom is a student in the Department of Political Studies at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), and an emerging leader in community development. She founded the project "Fields to Futures" to ensure quality education for underprivileged children in the Malnichhara Tea Estate, Bangladesh. She is a graduate of USAID and ADL’s “Democracy: From Theory to Practice” program and a certified United People Global Sustainability Leader. She also serves as Senior Vice President of Sonchalon and Captain of the United People Sylhet Squad, and advancing inclusive development, youth leadership, and democratic values.
