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 […]
20 Years of the Partnership Walk
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”6560,6559,6558,6557,6556,6555,6554,6553,6552,6551,6550,6549,6548,6546,6545,6547,6544,6543,6542,6541,6540,6539,6538,6537,6536,6534,6533,6535,6532,6531,6530,6529,6528″ img_size=”large” autoplay=”yes” hide_pagination_control=”yes” wrap=”yes”][vc_column_text] This year marks the 20th anniversary for Partnership Walk events. We will also mark the milestone of reaching our 100th Partnership Walk this year. The Walk has reached 10 major US cities over the years with 8 being held this year. Since 1995, Partnerships In Action activities including the […]
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 […]
International Volunteer Day: THANK YOU!
Our 2013 Partnership Events season has officially wrapped up! With today being International Volunteer Day, we’d like to give a big thank you to all our PartnershipsInAction volunteers! Here at the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA), we deeply appreciate the incredible energy and commitment you have contributed to organize very successful events that show […]
True Partnership: Homewood Middle School Students Produce Birmingham Walk’s Village in Action
Mary Binkley teaches Math/Science Enrichment and is the Junior United Nations faculty sponsor at Homewood Middle School in Birmingham, Alabama. She coordinated her students’ work on the Village in Action at the recent Birmingham Partnership Walk. “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” — Meryl Streep […]
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 […]
An Inspired Valentine
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we want to share one of our favorite heartfelt campaigns of 2012 here at the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA). Many of our donors inspire us with the dedication and energy that they put into fundraising for our programs. Today we spotlight a young couple’s generous desire to transform their “I […]
A Big Thank You to Our Volunteers
On December 5th, we celebrated International Volunteer Day so in this special edition of From the Field, we’d like to recognize our PartnershipsInAction volunteers. Here at the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A.(AKF USA), we deeply appreciate all of the hard work our volunteers contribute to end global poverty. Their boundless enthusiasm and commitment to helping others are essential components of AKF […]
Creating Art that Points Toward Change
In conjunction with the 2012 San Francisco Partnership Walk, an art contest featured the work of students on the theme of ending poverty and promoting pluralism. The San Francisco Walk took place on October 14, 2012 and was part of the national Partnership Walk, an initiative of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) to […]
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 […]