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.
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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT BUĞRAHAN ÖZKIR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Koç University | İstanbul, Türkiye | Advancing SDG 10 & UNAI 3
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" Being a part of Millennium Fellowship will enhance my skills collaboratively. The skills I gain from Millennium Fellowship will make my social impact on schools and art communities more tangible with the UNIA principles an SDGs. I am excited to explore new ways of learning and creativity. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Mattered Lives
There are various associations in Turkey that collect donations via Instagram upon various notifications sent to them and work to ensure that stray animals are treated and found a home. However, since they do not progress through unity, the group that each of them provides credibility to is also limited in number, and therefore they have not reached the capacity to fully meet the needs of stray animals in need of help. In my opinion, creating a platform (website, application) where these associations and these notifications will be gathered in the same environment and where the donations are used in the treatment of which animal, and how the donations are shared with the public in a more transparent way will create a more effective process. In addition, various activities related to stray animals can be announced on this website/application. Furthermore, I think that this platform can be used to educate children and young people and to raise awareness for them. In order to achieve this, there will be many courses such as "first aid for stray animals" and the members can earn points as they complete these courses, and with the points they earn, they can earn food from the contributions of various sponsors and individual donors of the platform. (to use the food he/she earns to feed street animals) Whit the help of this project, more stray animals' can be reached, and awareness can be created starting from a young age in order to break the prejudice in society.
About the Millennium Fellow
Buğrahan Özkır is a sophomore Media and Visual Art student at Koç University in İstanbul, Turkey. Buğrahan has the curiosity of a 7-year-old boy and he uses this curiosity to make a social impact. As a Koç University student, much of his education focused on impact design and marketing. With his project, he wants to help those who have difficulties in reaching quality education and lost their way in the information dumped on the internet. After he graduates, Buğrahan plans to earn a master's degree in International Management and wants to work on human-computer interaction.
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