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 PURNIMA AKTER MIM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology | Sylhet, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 5 & UNAI 9
" As I witness firsthand how village people are deprived of education and other opportunities. I am very passionate about community services, especially the development of marginalised people. From the beginning of my university life, I have been actively working with voluntary organizations. I have a strong communication, hard work and adaptation skills that helps me to work in this sector. As I am an undergraduate student I have some lack of resources and guidelines in project planning, so being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will enhance all my skills. I hope the Millennium Fellowship will help me make my social impact more effectively aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I hope this program will help me to increase all my leadership skills and create the opportunity to connect with other fellows. I envision developing my learning and creativity skills throughout my journey with MCN. "
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
Purnima Akter Mim is a passionate English major student at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. She was born and raised in the Tangail district, and resides in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Growing up in a small rural village in Bangladesh, she has a big dream to pursue higher education. She is the first girl from her village to get admitted to a public university. Purnima is also passionate about community services and voluntary activities. She is working to ensure quality education and empower her village girls. This passion drives her to enroll in several SDG related leadership programs and now she is a certified SDG leader. Her strong communication skill and dedication for social service drive her to meet other leaders worldwide. She has worked as a volunteer in several organizations both in her campus and outside the campus. She participated in several international conferences and presented her study about gender equality and quality education. Purnima aspires to be a teacher along with social activists in her professional field where she can cultivate her dreams. She wants to contribute to the development of her own society as well as the Global community. She aims to provide a great contribution in the development of the United Nation's Sustainable Goals.
