New Delhi, Aug 26 (UNI) Ashoka University on Wednesday said that 12 of its students have been chosen for the prestigious UN Millennium Fellowship, a joint collaboration by United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and Millennium Campus Network (MCN), a Boston-based global non-profit, for the class of 2020.
The program is aimed at building young leaders on university campuses worldwide. It is a semester-long leadership development program that aims to convene, challenge, and celebrate student leaders working towards the UN goals, the Haryana-based varsity said in a statement issued here.
Under the fellowship, the selected students from Ashoka University will be working on diverse projects like educating visually-challenged people through audio calls during the pandemic, developing a telemedicine platform which connects volunteer doctors with at-risk migrant workers facing healthcare barriers, alternate solutions to menstrual hygiene, cleaning of Asawarpur water body, a policy framework for instituting waste paper recycling units in Indian universities, establishing mental health support group for people facing pandemic-fuelled isolation, among others. Many of the projects also address UN Sustainable Development Goals like quality education and Life on land, it added.