"Over the longer term, the Graduate School of Media and Communication will ally itself with another new project of the Aga Khan University - a Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to be created over the coming years in Arusha. In a world of growing complexity, journalists must increasingly understand the substantive, sophisticated dimensions of the fields on which they report - from ...
Join us this fall for Local Roots, Global Fruits, our 2022 campaign. We will explore how AKF supports the best local ideas and leadership as the way for addressing the problems facing communities in Africa and Asia. Those then grow and mature and bear fruit--ideas and experiences that AKF shares widely, across other regions. ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the #Africa 2016 Conference on 21 February 2016 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
We know that at one point during the pandemic, almost every child in the world was out of school. During the lockdowns, the #AgaKhan Foundation in partnership with the #LEGO Foundation worked with teachers, families and communities in Kenya to create a series of play kits to help parents engage their children in meaningful and joyful #learning experiences at home. ...
Join us for the Aga Khan Foundation USA Town Hall, part of this year's 2021 Virtual Voyage campaign. We will explore how AKF is going the distance to help remote and hard-to-reach communities in Asia and Africa. We are excited for this opportunity for you to hear from AKF USA's leadership and staff, as well as some of our National Committee members responding ...
Join us for the Aga Khan Foundation USA Town Hall, part of this year's 2021 Virtual Voyage campaign. We will explore how AKF is going the distance to help remote and hard-to-reach communities in Asia and Africa. We are excited for this opportunity for you to hear from AKF USA's leadership and staff, as well as some of our National Committee members responding ...
A partnership between the Aga Khan Foundation and the LEGO Foundation to transform education in the region and support the uptake and use if play-based learning methodologies. ...
Are you ready? We're going on a virtual road trip through the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Kenya to explore how AKF is going the distance to help remote and hard-to-reach communities across Africa and Asia. Join us at VirtualVoyage.akfusa.org. #AKFVirtualVoyage ...
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#Proparco - an arm of the Agence Française de Développement - undertook a study to evaluate the developmental impact of #SerenaHotels (@Serena Hotels) in #EastAfrica. Watch this 9-minute documentary to see what they found. ...
#Frigoken Limited - a project company of the #AgaKhan Fund for #EconomicDevelopment - is the largest vegetable processor in East and Central Africa. In this video, produced by Global Compact Network Kenya as part of its Sustainable Development Goals in Action series, Frigoken's CEO Mr. Karim Dostmohamed discusses the company's investment in all-round workplace wellness to advance corporate sustainability. He details why ...
Today is 14 November, World Diabetes Day. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes kill 41 million people each year, equivalent to 71% of all deaths globally. These diseases are particularly disproportionate amongst lower income countries and populations, where more than three-quarters of global NCD deaths - 32 million - occur, and health ...
This fall, you're invited on Virtual Voyage: Around the World with AKF. Join the journey to see the impact of AKF's work in Africa and Asia. ...
In response to the ever growing need to address environmental challenges, the Aga Khan Development Network is taking action to operate more sustainably across all its projects. In East Africa, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) project companies are investing in solar power to reduce their carbon footprint. This film explores the progress of IPS's first solar project, and what is to follow. ...
The Serena Group is more than a collection of hotels. This film explores how it is an engine for economic development in local communities - and has been for over the last 40 years. Serena provides employment to 4,000 East Africans and gives priority and training to over 2,000 local suppliers and companies, while engaging the local community in ways that help ...
Ottawa, Canada, 27 February 2014 - More than a million people living in Asia and Africa will have new opportunities within reach, thanks to a five-year, CAD $100-million partnership between the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the Government of Canada, through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. ...
13 February 2019 - AKU has awarded more than 1,200 degrees and diplomas in Kenya and more than 3,000 in East Africa. ...
September 2018 - In 2008, the French gouvernment and the Aga Khan Development Network signed a Partnership Agreement to work together on development projects in Africa and Asia. ...
His Highness the Aga Khan was conferred with the Most Excellent Order of the Pearl of Africa by H.E. President Y. Museveni during Uganda's 55th Independence Day celebration on 9th October 2017. ...
In 2001, the Aga Khan Development Network (Flagship Partner of the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust for 15 years) was invited by the Government of East Africa to improve nurse education and training in a bid to halt the out-migration of qualified nurses, and to strengthen and reform its health care system. Like many developing countries, health provision in East Africa is ...
The Science of Early Childhood Development (SECD) program is an initiative to make accessible current research on the profound impact of early brain and human development on lifelong health and well-being. SECD emphasizes the vital importance of nurturing care and everyday experience for young children. In 2014, the Conrad N. Hilton and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) began a three-year collaboration to: ...
His Highness the Aga Khan delivered the Keynote Address at the "Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World" conference in Egypt in February 2016. This film provides some highlights from the conference. ...
Keynote Address by His Highness the Aga Khan at the "Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World" in Sharm el Sheikh on 21 February 2016 ...
The Aga Khan Foundation is committed to helping communities around the world build better futures. We all appreciate how everyone around the world wants a better future for themselves and their children. Yet many people struggle with overwhelming obstacles. While breaking the cycle of poverty is enormously complex, the Aga Khan Foundation sees success by making long-term investments, building permanent institutions and ...
Committed to breaking the cycle of poverty, Aga Khan Foundation invests in long-term sustainable solutions with communities across Africa and Asia. The video offers a glimpse at a few examples of how our investments in education, health and culture in partnership with our sister agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network contribute to building better futures now and for generations to come. ...
This Inside Africa segment profiles the inauguration of the first in an international network of academic centres of excellence that will provide primary and secondary education in Africa and Asia. ...
The creation of an enabling environment is expected to move Afghanistan from a climate of fragility to one of confidence in the future, leading to economic development and job creation, social progress and improved quality of life of the Afghan peopl ...
Nine architectural projects from Africa, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Southeast Asia shared the US$ 500,000 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. ...
AFRICA24 MEDIA and CCTV NEWS, as part of CCTV NEWS's "Faces of Africa" series, present "THE AGA KHAN: CREATING A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR AFRICA". Republished with permission from Africa24 Media. First aired on 8 March 2015. ...
18 Mar 2010 - His Highness the Aga Khan addresses the Pan-African Media Conference. ...
13.08.2007 - Aga Khan University announces the Faculty of Health and Sciences in East Africa. ...
16.12.2010 - Inauguration of the refurbished Polana Serena Hotel, a historic water-front landmark in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, and one of Africa's grandest colonial era hotels. ...
The Partnership for Advancing Human Development in Africa and Asia builds on more than three decades of cooperation between Canada and the Aga Khan Development Network, which has touched millions of lives. ...
This 4-minute film looks at the value of education for girls in developing countries. With its multiplier effect and promise for advancing earning power and family well-being, girls' education is one of the most important investments society can make. Looking at examples in East Africa, the program shows how the Aga Khan Foundation engages families and communities to invest in girls and ...
This video introduces how the Aga Khan Foundation helps poor communities in Asia and Africa achieve self-reliance and create better lives. The DVD poses the difficult facts of global poverty: 3 billion people in the world eke out survival with less than $2.50 a day; nearly 1 billion people cannot read or write; and 400 million lack access even to safe drinking ...
Learn how Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. is working to end poverty, hunger, illiteracy and poor health in Africa and Asia. Through Foundation programs, we work with communities to give the most marginalized people the tools to become self-reliant. Help create a brighter future by joining PartnershipsInAction, an initiative of Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. Together, we can end global poverty. Visit us at ...
