ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT STUTI BANSAL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women | Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 3
" "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
I have learnt to hold on to my beliefs and values and use my power to thrive and help others. The platform which Millennium Fellowship will provide me help me to serve my vision. I am excited to align myself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by the strong personalities I get to meet by being a Millennium Fellow. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Vriddhi
Project Vriddhi, is an inititative that will help women and members of LGBTQ+ community achieve financial literacy. For this project, we conducted an online survey for all age groups, where the sample was convenience-based. We recorded 451 responses which comprised of 350 female respondents, 78 male respondents, and 2 non-binary respondents. The mode age group of respondents was 18-24. In the survey, the questions were regarding basic financial knowledge like did they understand sum breakup of bills or if they knew the difference between debit card and credit card, how much they saved, etc. One of the questions was to rate on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being totally dependent while 5 being totally independent), how independent was an individual while making a financial decision. With the average score being 3.02, only 27.28% of female respondents made financial decisions independently compared to 50.53% of male respondents. This data indicates that women's empowerment and upliftment in terms of being financially aware needs to be amplified. We, being members of this society, wish to bridge this gap between women and men and all genders alike with our project.
About the Millennium Fellow
Stuti Bansal is a motivated, detail-oriented student skilled in leadership and communication skills within a team, pursuing engineering at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical university for Women. She was born in New Delhi, India. She always had a great passion for women's rights with her mother as her greatest inspiration. She got involved in various social projects right from her school such as in Help Age India and each one teach one. Also, in her college she has mentored students of school through Desh ke Mentor programme launched by Delhi government. She is successfully organising various social projects. Stuti also inspires to be in a field which is predominately male dominated and continue to contribute from a greater platform.
