Millennium Fellow Zulaikha Zainal Efendi: Project Tote

Zulaikha Zainal Efendi, a Millennium Fellow for the Class of 2019, started Project Tote to mobilize her community to share and donate tote bags to reduce single-use plastic waste.

United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership development program that helps students design and implement community-level initiatives to promote sustainability and help others in need.

Millennium Fellow Christine Yen: Getting to Know Traditional Chinese Medicine

Christine Yen, a Millennium Fellow for the Class of 2019, creates awareness about traditional Chinese medicine and its role in modern healthcare to empower students and local community on their health and well-being.

United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership development program that helps students design and implement community-level initiatives to promote sustainability and help others in need.

Reporting from the Front Lines: Keeping Journalists Safe in War Zones

War reporters today face a significant number of challenges in the field, including dangers to personal security and meeting their basic physical needs as well as operating within an extremely complex information environment. To address some of these issues Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTh), through its Peace Journalism Lab (PJL), has been offering a training project on field safety in war zones for journalists.

Ending Poverty Critical for Ensuring Social Justice

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said, “Ending poverty is not a matter of charity, but a question of justice.” In observance of the World Day of Social Justice Kristu Jayanti College, a UNAI member institution in India serving as the UNAI SDG Hub for Goal 1 – No Poverty, t

Millennium Fellow Wanjiku Cynthia Mwangi: Transform a Girl’s Life Initiative

Wanjiku Cynthia Mwangi, a Millennium Fellow for the class of 2019, aspires to end period poverty and to empower a new generation of women to become future leaders through the Transform a Girl's Life Initiative.

United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership development program that helps students design and implement community-level initiatives to promote sustainability and help others in need.

Millennium Fellow Agaba Francis Dunok: Kidsaid Uganda

Agaba Francis Dunok, a Millennium Fellow for the Class of 2019, provided disadvantaged and refugee children of Uganda with the opportunity to obtain primary school education through his organization Kidsaid Uganda.

United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership development program that helps students design and implement community-level initiatives to promote sustainability and help others in need.

Creating a New Society through Environmental Education

Teachers from ten schools have participated in the program.

In 1977 the Tbilisi Declaration on environmental education was adopted to “create new patterns of behavior of individuals, groups, and society as a whole towards the environment.” In the spirit of the nearly 45 year old declaration, the Franco-Haitian University of Cap-Haitian, a UNAI member institution in Haiti, has developed a project on environmental education as part of its community outreach and extension ini

Engaging Students in the 2030 Agenda Through Civic Action

Lynn students actively participate in the Citizenship Project.

Each year freshmen at Lynn University, a UNAI member institution in the United States, participate in the Citizenship Project as part of a three-week semester called January Term (J-Term), which is intended to serve as an immersive program that explores innovative ideas and topics.

Disarmament Education Series: Educating Youth through Art, Technology and Dialogue

Since its founding, the United Nations has given the highest priority to reducing and eventually eliminating weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, as well as controlling small arms and light weapons. With the rapid development of information and communications technology, the emergence of new concepts of security and threat, and the largest generation of young people in history, the need for education in disarmament and non-proliferation has never been greater.

Disarmament Education: Peace Education as a New Literacy

Since its founding, the United Nations has given the highest priority to reducing and eventually eliminating weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, as well as controlling small arms and light weapons. With the rapid development of information and communications technology, the emergence of new concepts of security and threat, and the largest generation of young people in history, the need for education in disarmament and non-proliferation has never been greater.