Kampala, Uganda, 11 February 2017 - Uganda's Minister of State for Health Sarah Achieng Opendi highlighted important developments in the country's healthcare and education sectors at the Aga Khan University's convocation ceremony in Kampala on Saturday. In her speech to graduands, Chief Guest Mrs. Opendi, described how nurses and educators from the Aga Khan University (AKU) were making a mark in ...

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 8 February 2017 - Graduands at the Aga Khan University's 12th convocation ceremony in Dar es Salaam were urged to make the best of their education by rising to the challenge of improving people's quality of life. In his speech, Chief Guest Lila Mkila, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, told graduates to celebrate today but ...

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Nairobi, Kenya, 7 February 2017 - The Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (AKU GSMC) is set to host a pioneering suite of courses designed to transform leadership in Africa. Launching in November 2017, Transforming Leadership for 21st Century Africa brings together two world class courses designed to equip executives with the skills, mindset and communication expertise to ...

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Islamabad, Pakistan, 20 January 2017 - The Department of Emergency Management (formerly FOCUS) of the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Small Grants and Ambassador's Fund Program initiated a project "Creating Resilient Communities in Shimshal Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan". The project, which aims to build resilience against the threat of glacial lake outburst ...

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West Nile, Uganda, 16 January 2017 - The Aga Khan Foundation in Uganda has joined Partners in Community Transformation (PICOT), a civil society organisation based in Koboko, and the Koboko district local government, in a new four-year project designed to promote the social and economic empowerment of young people. This project, "Promoting Youth Social and Economic Empowerment through Civil Society and ...

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Oxford, United Kingdom, 16 January 2017 - How can we educate young students to help them better develop open-mindedness, intercultural understanding and comfort with plurality and complexity in a global context? The Aga Khan Foundation has launched a new research programme with the University of Oxford entitled, Re-examining the Meaning of Learning in an Uncertain World. The partnership begins on 17 ...

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Nairobi, Kenya, 12 January 2017 - As part of one of the largest expansions of quality health care services in East Africa, the Aga Khan Development Network and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) today signed agreements for a total of US$19.5 million towards the improvement and expansion of the Aga Khan Hospitals in both Kisumu and Mombasa. The total project ...

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