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Tweleve students of Ashoka University selected for UN Millennium Fellowship

Tweleve students of Ashoka University selected for UN Millennium Fellowship

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.

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