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Skyping with Kenya, Chicago Students Explore the World Beyond Preconceptions

Eight Kenyan students in the Educating Girls in Science (EGIS) Project of the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa (AKA,M), supported by the Intel Foundation and the Aga Khan Foundation, took part in an exchange with students at Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago. That included a photography workshop described in an earlier blog post and an exchange between the Mombasa students […]

Championing Literacy, Girl’s Online Campaign Strengthens Kenyan Civil Society

Chela, an 8-year-old Kenyan girl, has identified a critical challenge in her country: access to reading materials.

Can one girl inspire a nation to action? Chela, an 10-year-old Kenyan girl, has identified a critical challenge in her country: access to reading materials. Like most Kenyan children, Chela grew up without access to books; only two percent of the country’s primary schools have libraries. Knowing the critical importance of literacy to education and […]

Yetu Campaign Promotes Literacy in Kenyan Communities

In an effort to increase child literacy, the Yetu campaign has launched an initiative to create libraries in primary schools across Kenya, where only 2 percent of schools have libraries. The initiative, spearheaded by Dr. Auma Obama, is called “Start A Library” and is supported by the Aga Khan Foundation and the U.S. Agency for […]

In Pursuit of Good Governance – Families Making Their Schools Better

This is the first in our series, In Pursuit of Good Governance, with stories from our new annual report. The four-part series examines a question that our partners face every day: How do communities access and organize basic services to ensure a better quality of life? Reliable hospitals, schools and community centers. Flourishing economies. These […]

A Glimpse Inside the Schools of Kenya

Students at Tezo Primary School listen attentively to their teacher.

This spring I traveled to Kenya to gauge and experience progress in schools involved in the Education for Marginalized Children in Kenya (EMACK) project. EMACK, which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), started in 2006 and is currently winding down its final phase. The project focuses on primary school children’s successful […]

Education and Action for Change: An Aga Khan Foundation Scholar’s View

Villagers using a new water pump in rural Kenya

Mukhaye Muchimuti is an Aga Khan Foundation Scholar now attending the American University Master’s Degree program at its School of International Studies. Recently she sat down with the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. Communications staff to talk about her life and the scholarship award. I grew up in Nairobi, smack in the middle of a family […]

A Day in the Life: Teachers Foster Skills and Values in Young Learners

AKDN’s East Africa pre-school program

Our next installment in A Day in the Life of Our Communities comes from the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania.  Naila Mkuja’s family lives in a densely populated neighborhood of Zanzibar. Like many of their neighbors, the family had little experience with schools. So when Naila started attending preschool at Imani Islamiya, an Early Childhood […]

Reading to Learn and the Teachers who Make it Work

teacher trained on Reading to Learn

This blog is adapted from a conversation with Alex Alubisia, Chief of Party of the Education for Marginalized Children in Kenya project (EMACK), based in Mombasa. He visited Washington, DC, where he spoke at the Society for International Development, and with staff at the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. office. EMACK is funded by the U.S. […]