The Value of an Education in One Life, and Many
This fall, to promote the Partnership Walk in San Antonio, Dr. Shazli Malik joined Waheeda Kara, Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) volunteer, for an interview on San Antonio’s Fox News 29 station. Dr. Malik, who is originally from Pakistan, shared her personal story of how the Aga Khan Development Network makes a difference in people’s lives. “The Aga Khan Foundation […]
Helping Malians Cope with Unrest
In Mali, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) has supported the provision of remedial education for children internally displaced as a result of the takeover of northern Mali by fundamentalist Islamic groups. This support came as part of the AKF USA grant to Mali on education, in association with the Mopti Teaching Academy, the main institution […]
Cross-Border Education Bridges Communities in Central Asia
In May 2012, Natalie Ross, AKF USA’s Program Associate for Civil Society and Youth, visited the Cross-Border Vocational Education in Badakhshan (CVEB) program of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Tajikistan. When you travel by road from the Tajik capital of Dushanbe to the mountainous Eastern Gorno-Badahkshan province in Tajikistan, you spend hours looking […]
Girls’ Forum Saves Dropout Girls in Kenya
Girls in Malindi District, halfway up Kenya’s coast, face much steeper obstacles than boys in getting a primary education. Girls are expected to take on heavy domestic workloads, and early marriages and teenage pregnancies are common. One by one, though, the girls of Masindeni Primary School are improving this picture. Their story was recently highlighted […]
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 […]
Reading for Children – From Asia to Africa
During a visit to the Aga Khan Foundation USA office, Kathy Bartlett and Caroline Arnold, co-directors of Education for Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, spoke about the Reading for Children program. They discussed how the program spread from the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia to West Africa and how it exemplifies the Aga Khan Development […]
AKF Gets Kids in Kyrgyzstan Reading and Learning
For many children in the Kyrgyz Republic, life involves an annual migration: several months each year moving with their families and livestock to high pastures in the mountains. The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) wants these kids to have access to an education too, so the Yurt Kindergarten program supports pre-school teachers who travel with these […]
Kenya Students Advance Tree-Planting Campaign
On April 11, 2012, over 300 students from the Aga Khan High School in Nairobi teamed up with students from Githanga Primary School and Githanga Mixed Secondary Schools in central Kenya to plant over 1,500 trees. The event, at the start of the country’s rainy season, is one of many taking place under the joint […]
Local School’s Improvements Impress US Ambassador to Kenya
US Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration visited one of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) supported schools, Vilwakwe Children Centre and School in Mombasa, on September 12, 2011. This was part of his familiarization tour of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programs in Kenya. Vilwakwe Children Centre and School is one of 24 schools […]
Reading for all in Kenya
The last of our Summer Travel Blog series! Our last post in the Summer Travel Blog series focused on Charles Sheerin’s trip to southern Kenya and the power of simple interventions that he witnessed there. Charlie, the Director of Communications and Resource Development at the Aga Khan Foundation USA (AKF USA), was also able to […]