King's Cross, London, United Kingdom, 2 October 2019 - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined His Highness the Aga Khan at a special event organised at the Aga Khan Centre, ahead of Their Royal Highnesses' official visit to Pakistan from 14-18 October 2019. ...
Recognised for her outstanding contributions to uplift lives around the world. Houston, Texas, 10 October 2019 - Princess Zahra Aga Khan, daughter of His Highness the Aga Khan (Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims), today received Asia Society Texas Center's Huffington Award in Houston, Texas. The award is the highest honour bestowed by the Texas Center recognising leaders who are a ...
Islamabad, Pakistan, 28-29 September 2019 - Accelerate Prosperity (AP), an initiative of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), organised one of the largest impact investment conferences in Pakistan, APImpactInvest Conference 2019. The conference highlighted economic opportunities in the mountainous region of northern Pakistan and showcased 78 entrepreneurs from Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. The entrepreneurs shared their stories, products ...
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 4 October - The President of the Kyrgyz Republic inaugurated the Conference on Digital Transformation in Central Asia (DTCA) on October 4 in Bishkek. This three-day international Conference is jointly hosted by the University of Central Asia (UCA), State Committee for Information Technology and Communications, and the High Technology Park of the Kyrgyz Republic, and includes a day ...
5 October 2019 - Today is World Teacher's Day. Across the Aga Khan Development Network, thousands of men and women, from a multitude of countries and cultural backgrounds and at all levels of the education spectrum, help improve the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of people by being teachers. To all of them, today, we say thank you for all ...
The Teacher Preparation Programme (TPP) is one of the Aga Khan Academies' landmark teacher development initiatives. In this interview with Kamini Menon at the Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad, TPP participant Afeera Maryam talks about the TPP's unique aspects and her experience with the programme. Please tell us a little bit about your background. I'm a part of the Teacher Preparation Programme ...
King's Cross, London, United Kingdom, 2 October 2019 - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined His Highness the Aga Khan at a special event organised at the Aga Khan Centre, ahead of Their Royal Highnesses' official visit to Pakistan from 14-18 October 2019. Hosted by His Highness the Aga Khan, the event at the Aga Khan Centre celebrated Pakistan's culture ...
As a masterpiece from the time of the brilliant Mughal civilisation, which reached its height during the reign of the Emperor Shah Jahan, the Picture Wall is partly responsible for the Lahore Fort's UNESCO World Heritage listing in 1981. However, the Picture Wall has suffered long periods of abandonment, improper use and neglect, and past conservation efforts have left behind a ...
Pakistan is a richly diverse country with varying cultures, dialects and traditions across the length and breadth of its terrain. The same terrain is peppered with historically significant socio-cultural assets. Unfortunately, many of these assets and heritage properties have fallen into disrepair, due to the lack of financial resources and understanding of the significance of preserving the past. Against this backdrop ...
Pamir Eco-Cultural Tourism Association (PECTA) was established in 2008 with the support of the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP), a project of the Aga Khan Foundation. It aims to help alleviate poverty in a way that is not only effective, but also sustainable. It is doing this by promoting the region as a new tourism destination. It is also supporting ...
Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, 13 September 2019 - The six winning projects of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) were acclaimed earlier today at a ceremony held at Kazan's Musa Jalil State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Mintimer Shaimiev, State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan, accompanied His Highness the Aga Khan, hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the ...
Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, 13 September 2019 - The six winning projects of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) were acclaimed earlier today at a ceremony held at Kazan's Musa Jalil State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Mintimer Shaimiev, State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan, accompanied His Highness the Aga Khan, hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the ...
Six projects receive 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, 13 September 2019 - The six winning projects of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) were acclaimed earlier today at a ceremony held at Kazan's Musa Jalil State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Mintimer Shaimiev, State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan, accompanied His Highness ...
For more than 25 years and through most of the country's post-independence history, the AKDN has worked towards the vision of an economically dynamic, politically stable, intellectually vibrant and culturally tolerant Tajikistan. To help celebrate Independence Day on 9 September, we've prepared this photo gallery to highlight some of the Network's activities and introduce some of the hundreds of thousands of ...
Se sentir à la maison loin de chez soi Hangoma a grandi à Khorog, une petite ville montagneuse à l'est du Tadjikistan. En 2017, l'Université d'Asie centrale (UCA) y a ouvert son deuxième campus, qui accueillit la même année sa première promotion d'étudiants. Comme son campus jumeau de Naryn, en République kirghize, le campus de Khorog dispose de salles de classe, ...
Raphael Mwachiti, a student at the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa, has won the Ryerson Sandbox Basecamp prize for his innovation to assist visually impaired people, awarding him a grant of $5,000 CAD and specialist professional advice to help advance his start-up. Ryerson University, located in Toronto, Canada, runs an intensive boot camp for six weeks every year. Students are invited to ...
Kazan, Russia, 29 August 2019 - The winners of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The winners will share US$ 1 million between them. Read the full Press Release. See the links below to learn more about the winning projects. All the content will also be available for download in broadcast and web quality. Public square, Rehabilitation of Muharraq, Bahrain. ...
Kazan, Russia, 29 August 2019 - The winners of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The winners, who will share US$ 1 million between them, are: BahrainRevitalisation of Muharraq, which highlights the World Heritage site's pearling history, was first initiated as a series of restoration and reuse projects. The project evolved into a comprehensive programme that aimed ...
By 2020, the average age in India will be 29 years, making it one of the youngest countries in the world. Around 12-15 million youth are joining the workforce annually and it is estimated that in the next decade over 250 million young people will join the workforce. According to various industrial surveys, 75-80% of employed people are not fit for ...
Home away from home Hangoma grew up in Khorog, a tiny mountain town in eastern Tajikistan. In 2017, UCA opened its second campus there, welcoming its first cohort of students. Like its sister campus in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, UCA's Khorog Campus features state-of-the-art classrooms, dormitory residences, and athletic facilities - all set against the backdrop of the majestic Pamir mountains. As part ...
Mombasa, Kenya, 13 August 2019 - Ziyaan Virji, 17, a student at the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa, Kenya, has received the Diana Award for going above and beyond his everyday life to create and sustain positive change. The Diana Award, which is given in memory of Princess Diana, is considered one of the highest accolades for social action or humanitarian ...
AKDN and SN Power sign tri-national hydropower generation agreement with Governments of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. Kinshasa, DRC, 29 July 2019 - IPS, the industrial and infrastructure development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and SN Power, a Norwegian international renewable energy company owned by Norfund, today signed the project agreements for the ...
Since 2016, the Aga Khan Museum has been proud to partner with Frederic Roberts Photography Workshops to showcase the incredible talent of local students. In just two and a half days, high schoolers learn computer and camera skills that will last a lifetime. But it is about more than building knowledge. "Photography is a tool for self-expression, and the stories are ...
By John McNee, Secretary General of the Global Centre for Pluralism Diversity is a fact of modern life for most of us. When celebrated and supported, it can be a foundation for innovation, peace and prosperity. More than ever, as inequality, social exclusion and a growing chorus of populist leaders pit groups against one another, we need constructive responses to diversity. ...
Finalists selected from 538 nominees spanning 74 countries Ottawa, Canada, 24 June 2019 - The Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP) today announced 10 finalists for the 2019 Global Pluralism Award. Three winners will be announced in the fall and honoured at a ceremony in Ottawa on November 20 this year. The Award recognises the extraordinary achievements of organizations, individuals and governments ...
Porto, Portugal, 9 July 2019 - Prince Amyn Aga Khan, brother of His Highness the Aga Khan (Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network) was today conferred with the Medal of Honour of the City of Porto by the Mayor of Porto Mr Rui Moreira in recognition of his patronage to the ...
A little over a month ago, I read the words of Marie Wilson, author, political organiser and founder of the White House project, for the very first time: "You can't be what you can't see." Those words could not have been timelier as I travelled across rural Gujarat, meeting many young men and women for whom the world they know is ...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 3-4 July 2019 - The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH), in partnership with the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence - under the auspices of the Government of Tajikistan - UNHCR, other UN Agencies, government and other humanitarian partners, conducted the second large-scale disaster simulation exercise designed to respond to an emergency situation related to a massive ...
London, 4 July 2019 - The Ismaili Centre, in partnership with the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, opened "Seeing Through Babel", a solo exhibition by the Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad. The exhibition runs in The Ismaili Centre's Zamana Space from the 1 July 2019 to the 15 August 2019. The exhibition references the Old Testament story of Babel, when mankind is ...
Meet Rukhshod, director of a national micro-lending organisation (MLO) in Tajikistan, with five branches across three regions. Once a simple housewife in a small village, Rukshod's journey into this position began when she became the manager of the women's committee of a small village organisation. Her natural ability to engage community members to ensure all voices were heard gained her early ...
In 2013, we produced this short video about the Reading for Children Programme in Kyrgyzstan, whose aim is to help pre-school age children grow into more confident and accomplished learners. Recently we caught up with Medina Makenova and her family from Achakaiyndy Village, Naryn Oblast (the least accessible part of Kyrgyzstan separated from the rest of the country by high mountain ...
Madagascar celebrates its Independence Day every 26 June. This is the date in 1960 when its complete independence from France was achieved and recognised. Since 2005 the Aga Khan Development Network has been undertaking development activities in both rural and urban contexts in various parts of the country, working across agriculture, nutrition, climate adaptation, access to finance, improving value chains, and ...
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it, in one year 13 million hectares of forests are destroyed at the expense of man's agricultural, industrial and domestic needs. We are losing about 200 square kilometres of forest every day. By absorbing water and ...
In Mozambique, where two out of five children are malnourished, programmes of the Aga Khan Foundation - with the support of Global Affairs Canada - have helped train communities to harvest essential crops and prepare nutritious meals. Using a community approach to combat malnutrition, members of a village come together to learn about proper nutrition, and the nutrient-rich foods that are ...
Despite progress, 800 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty, many of them in remote parts of the world. To alleviate poverty in these remote areas, the Aga Khan Foundation pioneered village-based development. Given the right tools, villagers mobilised to build roads, bridges, schools and clinics, water and sanitation systems and mini hydroelectric plants. They increased yields of essential crops ...
In 2017, the Aga Khan Foundation's (AKF) farm livelihoods and natural resources management interventions benefitted over one million people worldwide. In Tanzania, an AKF staff member met with one of those farmers to learn how he is working with local smallholder farmers to create an agricultural model where everyone benefits. Nickson "Nick" Mlowe, a 26-year-old Tanzanian farmer from Mtwara, is a ...
Experts discuss emerging concerns at a symposium co-hosted by Nova and AKU in Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal, 13 June 2019 - New discoveries in stem cell research have raised the hope among scientists that there will be breakthrough cures for common diseases ranging from heart disease to diabetes, but new ethical and regulatory questions have surfaced, according to experts at a symposium ...
At the Aga Khan Development Network we have worked for decades to respond to innumerable earthquakes, avalanches, floods, and landslides. The countries that fall in the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat's remit have suffered 847 major disasters over the last 28 years, accounting for over 243,000 lives lost. As all of us know, these disasters often cause families to lose their most valuable asset: their home. Time and again ...
Lisbon, Portugal, 11 June 2019 - In delivering the seventh Annual Pluralism Lecture, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed addressed the links between pluralism and development, highlighting the dangers posed by growing inequalities. "Inequality is at extraordinary levels and is growing, both within and between our countries. After a decade of decline, the number of chronically hungry people in our world ...
In March 2019, Princess Zahra Aga Khan and the Prime Minister of Tanzania, Hon. Kassim Majaliwa launched the completion of the second phase of a US$ 79.8 million (TZS 183 billion) expansion of the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam, which will enable the institution to serve over one million patients each year. The expansion was funded by a US$ ...
