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Nearly all the Foundation's programmes involve integrating resources from different parts of the world in collaboration with governments, with such international agencies as UNICEF and the World Health Organisation and with other private agencies. Inevitably, and rightly, this experience has led us to certain conclusions about ways of handling international aid. Indeed we are learning all the time. One conclusion is ...

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Tourism developments can do much to assist economic progress. Hotels such as this and the hotel we are planning at Quetta, are labour intensive. They have a substantial impact on the construction industry and they affect the revitalisation of local arts and crafts. All this gives employment while hotel purchases benefit local businesses. At the same time they can bring foreign ...

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Out-reach services can do a great deal to improve standards of health care. This will be more than just a conventional maternity home. It will be the hub for a variety of activities, bringing medical service and knowledge into peoples' homes. Helping a mother deliver her baby in the world should involve far more than just sending a midwife to attend ...

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At present many millions of unfortunate people enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Not only are they miserable, the social and economic cost of their plight is incalculable. Adequate accommodation is a principal factor in human health and well-being. It can bridge that terrible gulf between ...

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In Islamic belief, knowledge is twofold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers. Indeed, one ...

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On the whole, though the Ismaili community wherever it exists is well tolerated by the majority community. Is it because a low profile is deliberately maintained? Or that it does proselytise [sic]? I think there may be a number of reasons for that. First of all, we don't seek to proselytise. We don't seek to tell others that what they practise ...

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March 23, 1983 (Islamabad): Nishan-e-Pakistan Award Ceremony. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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How would you comment on the notion popularised by Western critics that scientific and technological progress is incompatible with the practice of Islam? I think that's one of the most offensive things that can be said about Islam and I take issue with it in every way. In the first place, to say that science in the modern age is incompatible ...

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Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version . You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCESGulf News, 13 March 1983Audio: ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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March 13, 1983: Dinner hosted by Lt. Gen. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. (Gulf News, 13 March 1983)March 13, 1983: Dinner hosted by Shaikh Surour bin Mohammed, Chamberlain of the Presidential Court. (Khaleej Times, 14 March 1983)March 14, 1983: Dinner in honour of The Ruling Families. (Gulf News, 14 March 1983) SOURCESAs above from ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan visited the Gulbekian Foundation and Museum in Lisbon. Portugal's Foreign Minister, Mr. Vasco Futscher Pereira, paid tribute to the Ismaili community in his speech at the dinner he hosted. He said, "It is with satisfaction that today we see the activities of the Portuguese Ismailis and thus witness to their spiritual leader deep appreciation of the ...

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The Ismaili community here is a new one. It was enabled to make its home here because of the exceptional humanity and open-mindedness with which Portugal treated people of all races from their former colonies. The Aga Khan Foundation, which is involved in the fields of health care, education and rural development, chiefly in Asia and Africa, has now been registered ...

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There are those, as I said when I inaugurated this project, who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and ...

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The Prince, who arrived here on Wednesday, in connection with the sliver Jubilee celebration of his accession to the Imamat told the Delhi Doordarshan in an interview that the Jubilee year was dedicated to the cause of improvement of life in Third World countries. Expressing his deep concern over the tremendous difference in the quality of life in rural area and ...

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I am sure all of us have seen very young children playing aimlessly in the dust of villages in Asia or Africa. The surveys underlined how little effort was being made for such children's physical or mental development. Accordingly we began establishing day care centres to provide pre-primary education, nutrition and health care, including immunisation, for children up to 5.5. This ...

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[M]y grandfather's and my own understanding of Islam convinced us of a substantially different premise. He believed, as I do, that the correct interpretation of our office, and of the faith which guides it, is that man must not shy away from the material endeavour in the name of his faith. On the contrary, he must be enterprising, contributing of his ...

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January 17, 1983 (Mumbai): Dinner hosted by Housing Development Finance Corporation.January 17, 1983 (Mumbai) Luncheon hosted by His Holiness Dr. Syedna M. Burhanuddin, leader of the Bohora community. SOURCESismaili.net. POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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The dangers facing democracy worldwide are increasing under the stress of economic pressure and unemployment. Recent years have demonstrated, not only in the developing countries but also in the older Western democracies, how fragile democracy can be when political morality collapses under the strain of events. The preservation of democratic institutions requires a strong sense of integrity and discipline. Striking a ...

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I encourage the institutions of the Imamat to aim for the highest standards of performance in all that they do, from the lowest levels of management upwards. I also try to encourage excellence across a wider spectrum in the Third World. In 1978, I established the Aga Khan Awards Foundation in Geneva to honour exceptional achievements in the Arts and Sciences. ...

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It is estimated that a million and a half children die each year of cholera and related infections. Research into these diseases has its worldwide focal point here in Bangladesh at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research. Most happily the ICDDR has developed a treatment for the disease -- the oral rehydration therapy -- which is now being refined, using ...

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[A]s well as adding to the schools and medical centres established by my grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, I have also set out to expand the Third World investments which he initiated. Since 1963 I have established the Industrial Promotion Services companies to act in various countries as an agency of the Imamat for economic development. Their activities should ...

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Our ideals and those of Bangladesh are both inspired by the same faith, which lays such emphasis on the brotherhood of man. The improvement of the human condition must be a principal obligation of every Muslim, whether those he helps are of his own faith or not. The objectives and work of Ismaili Imamat are directed towards this objective, in all ...

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Your Excellency also referred to the newly formed Industrial Promotion and Development Company (IPDC) of Bangladesh as an example of what our combined efforts can do. Our own Industrial Promotion Services Company of Switzerland is one of the four international partners who have established the Industrial Promotion and Development Company of Bangladesh, in which Your Excellency's Government has a 30 percent ...

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The first series of Awards in Architecture within the vast community of Muslims has been given. It is well to ponder a this time what they mean, what questions they raise, what implications they may have for the future, as well as for our deeper collective concern for the continuous integrity of Islamic architecture and, through architecture, for the whole of ...

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The Imamat's involvement with this private initiative, especially in the economic field, deserves explanation to anyone educated in the Augustinian Christian philosophy which tends to divide the spiritual from the material. Islam, by contrast, is a total religion guiding all aspects of a Muslim's life. The faith establishes the moral framework within which material endeavour is to be encouraged and a ...

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There will always be limits on what we can do and priorities to be established. My grandfather attached great importance to the prevention of diseases. This and the improvement of public health have been major aims of our health services ever since. As the health Minister Dr. Aaron Chiduo, pointed out at recent 6th Plenary Meeting of the 35th World Health ...

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The Foundation now has affiliates in seven countries, collaborates with other International agencies and was officially recognised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1980. Its activities range widely; a highly successful goitre control programme through rural health centres in Pakistan: combating diarrhoeal diseases in Bangladesh; originating programmes to improve the farming of the rural poor both in the remote ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan was guest at a dinner hosted by the President of Tanzania. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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The aim of our seminar was to come to Africa in order to inform ourselves about the problems of development in African cities We have analysed a great many situations, and heard numerous points of view We have spoken of the city and its newly urbanised populations, as well as concentrations of villages in rural zones The problems have been examined ...

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It is quite logical to presume that it is easier at the periphery of the vast experience of Islam to identify those ways in which, and the degrees to which, this experience has inserted itself into such highly differentiated socio-cultural milieux as China and Black Africa How does each national culture, and even each regional culture, manage not only to express ...

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The last few years have brought a distressing polarisation between the industrialised nations and the Third World, between economic and political philosophies and within faiths. Such polarisation divides the rich nations from the poor, divides socialism from free enterprise, divides religious beliefs including my own faith. It is achieving the exact opposite of the brotherhood of man, and makes it crucially ...

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They must reach out beyond their walls, as was recommended by the Conference on the Role of Hospitals in Primary Health Care sponsored by the Aga Khan Foundation and the World Health Organisation in Karachi last November. The conference declared that hospitals should be associated with a well defined catchment area and should support and encourage primary health care programmes in ...

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Last night I was delighted to hear Your Excellency underline the importance of the private sector in Kenya's industrial and commercial development strategies.... If government and its agencies can establish an on-going dialogue with the private sector then the private sector will both be able to explain its day-to-day problems to government and will itself gain a better appreciation of the ...

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[G]overnments should equally endeavour to provide the climate for such collaborative investment. I call this an 'Enabling Environment', that is to say the combination of confidence, of security and a philosophy and application of law which will enable commerce to flourish. It is now more than ever in the interests of governments to create this Enabling Environment.... What have we learnt ...

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But above all it seems to me that the challenge of primary health care is one of management. Take patient referral systems. Are there adequate links between the smaller, intermediate and large institutions and between urban and rural health centres? Can the poor afford the costs of being referred to a higher echelon? Do doctors refer patients up the line when ...

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The new building will stand in strongly landscaped surroundings. It will face a courtyard with foundations and a garden. Its scale, its proportions and the use of water will serve to create a serene and contemplative environment. This will be a place of congregation, of order, of peace, of prayer, of hope, of humility, and of brotherhood. From it should come ...

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We are tryng to to establish relationships in which we can learn from both Northern and Southern institutions. The Aga Khan Foundation and Harvard University signed a Memorandum of Agreement to mutually cooperate in the health and medical education development of the Third World. In the New York Times, His Highness the Aga Khan was quoted saying: We are trying to ...

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I do have two early thoughts in two additional areas debated this week which I would like to share with you. The first relates to the issue of community participation. I am not entirely sure, in a pure sense, how much primary health care we deliver throughout the world in our Aga Khan Health Services in the many countries under our ...

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[I]n at least one area, which is so basic to primary care, there now seems to be a real shortfall. This is in the field of prevention. Many hospitals seem to have a limited appreciation of what can be done in this area. Why is this? Personally, I believe that any person who is admitted to any hospital -- including those ...

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October 31, 1981: Visit to the Aga Khan Hospital and Medical College to review construction.November 23, 1981: Pakistan Qaumi Yakjehti Council awarded its Pakistan Qaumi Yakjehti Shield award in recognition of the service of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III. November 25, 1981: Attended 5th All-Pakistan Ophthamological Congress. SOURCESismaili.net. POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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