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 NAIMA SULTANA ANIKA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
University of Dhaka | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 17 & UNAI 6
" Creativity and adaptability, fueled by systems thinking, drive my art and my work. Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will enhance these skills collaboratively. The skills I gain from the Millennium Fellowship will make my social impact on schools and art communities more tangible and aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am excited to increase my anticipatory competence by envisioning new ways of learning and creativity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Hear Me, Heal Me
The current state of mental health awareness in Bangladesh is alarming. The stigma associated with this matter and the failure to recognize the need for help, lead many young people to hang their heads down and suffer in silence. I hope my project will assure them that their sufferings are not inconsequential, that fighting their demons makes them resilient - not frail. I want to help them seek clinical aid. With this in mind, I plan to collaborate with mental health professionals and arrange awareness programmes in educational institutions. Also, in places where the senior family members frequent, because in a hierarchical society like ours, their awareness or lack thereof significantly impact the well-being of the sufferers. Small support circles, both online and offline, will be created to offer the sufferers safe spaces to express their feelings and bond with others including recovered individuals. I expect to launch storytelling campaigns on online platforms for young people to share their mental health journey, their stories of pain, processing and healing. Also, I shall strive to depict the quiet strength of those who live with mental health disorders and challenge the misperception of their weakness.
About the Millennium Fellow
Naima Sultana Anika is a Law student in University of Dhaka. Since childhood, she is passionate about bringing change in the faulty mechanism of the society. After suffering from mental health issues herself in her adolescence, she came to fully realise how many adolescents are suffering and being pulled back by the overall lack of awareness about mental health in the society. From then on, she was resolute to help those who had nobody to hear them out.
