[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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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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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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 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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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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[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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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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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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As a result of my building exercises, I started asking, what were the correct elements, what were the correct issues that anyone responsible for a large amount of building should keep in his mind when he makes these decisions. You can completely eliminate the social roots, the cultural roots. You can weaken the economic strength of the community by bad development, ...

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Perhaps the first issue [about rural habitat highlighted by this seminar] is the absence of communication between those who live in the rural areas and those who work for its betterment. What I mean by communications is the ability of the rural population to express itself in a clear manner to the people who are planning the development of the rural ...

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October 22-23, 1981: Visited Xian and attended Juma prayers at the Great Mosque. October 25, 1981: Visited Urumchi. Banquet was hosted by the Chairman of the People's Government of Xinjiang Autonomous Region. October 26, 1981: Visited Turfan, the Imim Minara [sic?] and a nearby factory. October 27 - 29, 1981: Visited Kashgar. October 19 - 29, 1981: Visited the Great Wall, ...

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Somehow ways have to be found to make the countryside itself a more desirable place to live in, which in turn demands an ability to earn more and to save enough, as individuals or families or communes to begin the process of self-generated economic growth and thus social well-being. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to identify and premiate all ...

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[T]eaching is a profession which has not received the credit, the admiration, the respect which it should receive. His Highness the Aga Khan said during his visit to the Aga Khan Primary School, Kisumu that: teaching is a profession which has not received the credit, the admiration, the respect which it should receive. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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Some may be curious as to why so much effort has been devoted to the area of social developments: institutions for health, institutions for education, for housing, etc. Perhaps it is useful to explain that reason publicly. I am concerned about the pressures on the economies of the Third World countries, and if my concern is well-founded then the corollary is ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan gave a speech at H.H. The Aga Khan Kenya Secondary School. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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The point I wish to make -- and it conditions everything else I have to say this morning -- is that there is probably no infallible solution to the problem of media ownership. What matters is that the organisation, whoever owns it, develops sufficient resources and is committed to creating quality newspapers that are responsible, reliable and readable. The ultimate test ...

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[W]ould you care to identify one single area in which you think that certain countries need to undertake great effort which could act as a catalyst or a pivot to advance overall programmes? Very good, a very astute question and a correct question. I think you should look at the Third World countries, and essentially I am talking about Asia and ...

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Today this is the beginning, the birth, of a new medical institution in Pakistan, the Aga Khan School of Nursing. It is also the first step in the existence of an institution which, by 1984, will be one of the largest single medical complexes in the country. And I hope this day will also be the dawn of a new dimension ...

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I am deeply convinced that in the years ahead, the major cities of the Islamic world must use every effort to develop within our own culture and within our idiom and it with this conviction that the Aga Khan Hospital and Medical College here in Karachi was conceived. In every facet of its planning, our architectural traditions coupled with the need ...

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[W]e must determine for ourselves, in our own special circumstances, how our doctors should be trained, how they should be utilized and motivated once they qualify, how they can be provided a structured career development which extracts the maximum national value from a scarce and precious human resource: that is the crux of the problem as I see it. His Highness ...

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We are here to celebrate the publication of Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan's book of speeches delivered to countless audiences at home and aboard. These speeches illustrate the career of one of the most remarkable women of our time. The range and variety of her subject matter and the conciseness of her writing has caused me to regret that I never ...

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February 16, 1981: Lunch in Honour of the President of Pakistan. SOURCESAs above from ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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