Golfers Build a Better Future at Aga Khan Foundation Golf – Dallas
DALLAS, TEXAS, April 7, 2016. Today, at the annual Aga Khan Foundation Golf – Dallas tournament, 117 golfers drove on the green while investing in long-term solutions to improve the quality of life for communities around the world. Held at the Cowboys Golf Club in Grapevine, Texas, golfers raise nearly $170,000 for programs of the […]
Dallas Moves to Build Better Futures at Aga Khan Foundation Walk|Run
DALLAS, TEXAS, OCTOBER 10, 2015. More than 5,000 Dallas residents moved to invest in long-term solutions to improve the quality of life for communities worldwide at the annual Aga Khan Foundation Walk|Run – Dallas at the Irving Convention Center. The event was an initiative of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) to raise awareness and funds […]
Making a Better Future, One Innovation at a Time
Often we in the U.S. respond to reports of global poverty with emotions and words of sympathy. Our desire to help is a faint flame that lacks the spark of transformation. In an attempt to provide that spark, the Dallas Youth Ambassadors, volunteers with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), have initiated an annual Innovative Solutions Challenge. The […]
Golfers Drive to Invest in Poverty Solutions at Dallas Partnership Golf Event
DALLAS, TEXAS, APRIL 2, 2015. Today 150 golfers drove to the green while investing in long-term solutions to global poverty. The golfers raised an estimated net $170,000 for programs of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in the eighth annual Dallas Partnership Golf tournament, held at the Cowboys Country Club in Grapevine, Texas. The event is an initiative of the […]
Youth Ambassador and Beyond
Sanya Khan is a recent graduate of Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, Texas, and has been a volunteer Youth Ambassador with the Aga Khan Foundation USA, which works to end poverty in Africa and Asia. Her previous blog post described a community service project with elementary school students in a low-income neighborhood. In my […]
Dallas Takes a Step to End Global Poverty at Partnership Walk/Run
DALLAS, TEXAS, September 20, 2014. Today 5,200 participants walked to end global poverty in the annual Dallas Partnership Walk/Run at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, TX. The Dallas Partnership Walk is an initiative of Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) to raise awareness and funds that reduce poverty, hunger, illiteracy and poor health in […]
Young Artists Portray a Hand Up for Hope
Aly Panjwani is a Senior at Hebron High School in Carrollton, Texas and the Culture Officer for the Dallas Aga Khan Foundation Youth Ambassadors. As a performer and an advocate for the fine arts, he took the lead for hosting AKF’s annual Art Competition in the Dallas Forth-Worth metroplex, which serves to raise awareness of […]
From Cairo to Plano, Texas
Sanya Khan is a student at Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, Texas, and a volunteer Youth Ambassador with the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., which works to end poverty in Africa and Asia. As an ambassador, she led a community service project to give elementary school students, in a low-income neighborhood, inspiration for reading and […]
Inspired by Kyrgyz Program, Texas Youths Give Back and Promote Reading
Zanir Habib, a high school sophomore in Euless, Texas, has actively volunteered with Partnership Walk in Dallas for several years, but when he read about an Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) project in Kyrgyzstan, he decided to take that involvement to another level. Habib describes how he was inspired by the blog about a Reading […]