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 MASHRUFA HUSSAIN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Dhaka | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 14, SDG 15, SDG 16 & UNAI 8
" I dream of a better world. A world for all 8.7 million species, not just one. A world where people live in harmony with the environment and do not over-exploit its limited resources for personal gain. A world full of passionate, empathetic, enlightened, social, and selfless change-makers. And I want to be one of those courageous change-makers. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Ecollab
The project will empower 120 university students from all 64 districts of Bangladesh who are currently studying in University of Dhaka, by providing them with skills in climate advocacy and leadership. These selected fellows participate in a 12-week program, which includes training on climate change, sustainability, leadership, and advocacy. After the training, they go on a field trip to learn about local biodiversity and take part in team-building exercises to better understand ecosystems and conservation. For the next 4 weeks, fellows design and run a capstone project in their home villages. The program ends with a virtual global expo, where fellows present their projects and connect with climate advocates from Nigeria, Jordan, Indonesia, and Brazil. The goal of the project is to strengthen communities by promoting climate resilience through education, awareness, leadership development, and practical action. In our last cohort, we organized 60 workshops across 60 districts of Bangladesh, reaching 2,500 participants, and led tree planting initiatives in 20+ cities, planting over 65 trees. The Climate Connect 2024 initiative brought together 200 participants from four countries, while our social media outreach engaged over 9,000 individuals, raising awareness of climate issues.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mashrufa Hussain is a U.S. Department of State Exchange Alumna and former Facilitator at BYLC, Bangladesh’s largest nonprofit developing youth leadership. She represented Bangladesh in the Study of the U.S. Institute for Global Student Leaders on Climate Change at the University of Nevada, USA. She is the founder of “Ecollab”, an international project on climate awareness and heatwave mitigation active in Bangladesh, Brazil, Jordan, Nigeria, and Indonesia. The project has won multiple grants from the U.S. and Bangladesh, reached over 6,000 people, and planted 100 trees in 50 districts across Bangladesh. “Ecollab” works to advance climate adaptation in the Global South by building a network of empowered change makers. Mashrufa is currently studying in the Department of Soil, Water, and Environment at the University of Dhaka.
