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 […]
In Pursuit of Good Governance – In West Africa, Creating More Inclusive Financial Systems
This is the last installment 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. […]
A Day in the Life: Pamir Energy Turns Lights on for Mountain Families, Businesses and Schools
This week we launch a new series, A Day in the Life of Our Communities, with the story of Mayram K. in Tajikistan. For more photos from this program and for more stories of the Aga Khan Foundation’s partners, please download our 2012 annual report. Mayram K. lives in the mountains of Tajikistan. Her workload is […]
USDA-Supported Programs Help Mali Farmers Adapt in Hard Times
On the day before Thanksgiving, Mary Beth Leonard, the U.S. ambassador to Mali, took a trip to see how the farm families and grower cooperatives of Mopti, eight hours northeast of Bamako, the capital, are coping in the challenging conditions of this west African nation. Making a living by farming is never easy, but if […]
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 […]
AKF USA Celebrating International Women’s Day
Today, March 8, 2012, Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the critically important contribution women play in our development work around the world. As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon notes on the occasion, “Rural women and girls — to whom this year’s International Women’s Day is devoted — make up […]
Theater Prepares Afghans for Natural Disasters
In many communities around the world it’s very hard for people to consider disaster preparedness as a priority. In an Afghan village where families spend many of their waking hours just trying to survive — whether it’s collecting water or working on their fields — not much time is spent thinking about preparing for natural […]
In Pakistan, Community Savings Groups Save Lives
During my recent trip to Chitral (the northernmost District of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province) I met Aisha, who showed me how women are using community based savings groups to access skilled health care. This particular model for community-led group savings – also known as Village Savings and Loan Associations — is an innovation in this […]