ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ZIYI ZHU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
New York University Shanghai | Shanghai, China | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 7
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Millennium Fellowship Project: Playgrounds For Children
We noticed that in children in economocally less developed part in rural China often lack access to sports education and facilities. Thus, our project aim to provide rural primary schools with soccer balls and soccer training during summer and winter with support from volunteers who has had some experience of soccer. Especially we would encourage girls to join the program, as soccer is typically portraited as a men/boy's sport. For children who show much passion and dedication to soccer and want to pursue a professional career as a soccer player, we hope to help them connect to more professional training platforms and opportunities, provide some funding, in an attempt to cross the economic barrier and structural inequalities facing ordinary or underprivileged people who want to become sports professionals.
In this way, we hope that more children can have fun, build connections with each other, and have better well-being through participating in soccer and physical exercises in generall.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ziyi Zhu is a junior from NYU Shanghai majoring in social science (with a track in anthropology or sociology). She is passionate about education equity, environment sustainability, mental health and gender equality. She hopes to bring together different perspectives, grassroots voices and power to build a more inclusive and sustainable community. Studying-away in NYU Abu Dhabi in the coming semester, Ziyi wishes to explore the intersectionality of gender, education, culture, etc.
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