Youth Art and Spoken Word Competition Winners Announced!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As part of our 2024 fall campaign, “Generosity Inspires Hope and Hope Changes Lives,” we invited young people to participate in the long-running Youth Art and Spoken Word Competitions organized by the Dallas-based Youth Ambassadors program. Participants were asked to reflect on the theme “Inspiring Hope, Changing Lives.”
Empowered to Create Change:
Youth Ambassadors find Inspiration in AKF’s work
[vc_row el_class=”excerpt”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Globally-inspired art, innovations, and local initiatives were at the heart of the 2021 Youth Festival. Hosted by Youth Ambassadors, the virtual showcase invited youth to explore how they can make a difference while adapting to a changing world.
Youth Ambassador Draws on Skills to Make a Better World
When Armaan Ismail decided to go to college, he knew he wanted to build on skills he gained as a Youth Ambassador of the Aga Khan Foundation. The L.A. youth team member, now a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, already had a wealth of experience and a vision for his future, thanks in part […]
Youth Ambassadors Are Champions for Change
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”8017″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=”.vc_custom_1548682891927{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Sarah Habib and Alisha Somani are co-presidents of the Aga Khan Foundation Youth Ambassadors in the Dallas area, and seniors in high school. Recently they spoke with us about the group’s local programs, aspirations, and public recognition they have received.
Making a Better Future, One Innovation at a Time
Often we in the U.S. respond to reports of global poverty with emotions and words of sympathy. Our desire to help is a faint flame that lacks the spark of transformation. In an attempt to provide that spark, the Dallas Youth Ambassadors, volunteers with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), have initiated an annual Innovative Solutions Challenge. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]