Crisis to Opportunity: Women Gain Business and Literacy Skills to Overcome Challenges in Mali

Next in our series, Rooted in Resilience: From Crisis to Opportunity, is the story of Bintou Toulema in Mali. For... View Article

Crisis to Opportunity: How Teaching Helped One Woman Fulfill a Dream

Next in our series, Rooted in Resilience: From Crisis to Opportunity, is the story of Habi Sekere in Mali. For... View Article

Urban Parks are the Green Jewels in the City Landscape

Parks are complex elements of a city. They can serve scores of different uses, some may be specialized in their... View Article

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Global Charity Improves Life for the Poor as It Restores Historic Muslim Sites

Four hundred years ago, the widow of the second Mughal emperor of India built her husband a grand mausoleum in... View Article

2013 Aga Khan Foundation Program Highlights

Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. programs help to alleviate poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and poor health through community-based initiatives in Afghanistan, Egypt,... View Article

Self-Reliance in Action – in Mali

One of the best parts about my job is visiting the projects that I support in the field. Most recently,... View Article

Partnering for a Better Future in Wakhan

On July 12, the Washington Post published an article about Afghanistan’s Wakhan district, saying that despite the large influx of... View Article

Spotlight on AKF USA Fellows: Gaining Skills in Planning Programs

I started my professional development fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) last November after two years of work as... View Article

Market Development Ideas, from Aswan to Bamako

By Schafer Bomstein, Program Associate with the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. My recent trips to Mali and Egypt were planned... View Article

Houston’s Art Museum Trustees Impressed by AKTC’s Work in India

Members of the Board of Trustees from Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts recently visited Humayun’s Tomb, a project of the Aga Khan Trust... View Article