Engaging India’s Citizens to Improve Sanitation
Happy World Water Day! This year we’re highlighting the Aga Khan Development Network Comprehensive Sanitation Initiative in India. In April 2015, Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) agencies, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat and the Aga Khan Health Services launched the AKDN Comprehensive Sanitation Initiative, […]
Choosing Their Path: Empowering Girls through Education
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Happy International Women’s Day! This year we’re highlighting three amazing girls from Project Lehar. Project Lehar, which means “wave” in Urdu, works to empower and improve the quality of life of out-of-school adolescent girls. Begun by Aga Khan Foundation India in 2015 with support from the United Nations Population Fund and Canada Fund for Local […]
Community-led Program Brings Solar Energy to India’s Poorest
Chandrakant Pradhan, Aga Khan Foundation’s Rural Development Programme Officer in New Delhi, managed a project to promote efficient, renewable energy products in remote areas of two of India’s poorest states, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. The project was a partnership with Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) and the Aga Khan Foundation in India. Here he […]
Recognition, Solidarity, Hope: Helping Marginalized Women Participate More Fully In Society
In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, Aga Khan Foundation (India) CEO, Matt T. Reed, reflects on the challenges that marginalized Indian women face daily. Reed also highlights lessons from the Foundation’s work in India in three main capacities. Read more in Huffington Post India here.
Aga Khan Foundation Celebrates Ideas at Jaipur Literary Festival
Matt T. Reed, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation (India), reflects on his experiences at the Jaipur Literary Festival, a five-day event celebrating ideas, words and literacy. The festival featured Thomas Piketty, one of the world’s leading economists whose work centers on inequality, its causes and solutions. Read the full article in The Huffington Post here.
Yuva Junction Facilitates Alternative Livelihoods for Young People in India
A little over a month ago, I read the words of Marie Wilson, author, political organizer and founder of the White House project, for the very first time: “You can’t be what you can’t see.” Those words couldn’t have been timelier as I travelled across rural Gujarat, meeting many young men and women for whom […]
The World in a Grain of Rice
How much of the solution to global hunger lies in the DNA of the food on our plates? That was the question on September 25th, when I had the opportunity to attend an event at the Brookings Institution entitled “Tackling the ‘Zero Hunger Challenge’ by 2030: A Conversation with Robert Zeigler.” Dr. Zeigler, the Director […]
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 for Culture (AKTC) in Delhi, India. The tour, led by Sultana Mangalji, member of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA)’s National Committee, introduced museum staff and board members to the restored tomb and gardens, as well as the […]
New Ideas from Rural India: Growing Food without Land
This post was originally published on InterAction as part of a series in recognition of the UN’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct. 17. Apoorva Oza, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India, recently visited the Washington, DC office of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., and discussed how good ideas […]
AKDN & UN World Food Day
Did you miss World Food Day? Each year on October 16, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s World Food Day is celebrated to increase awareness of global hunger, encourage attention to agricultural food production and strengthen international and national solidarity in the struggle against hunger and food insecurity. In celebration of this day, the […]