On 6 July this year, students from across London participated in an exciting new initiative by the Aga Khan Foundation at the newly built Aga Khan Centre in King’s Cross’ Knowledge Quarter. The one-day lecture event incorporated talks by two…
In a country where traditional wisdom has not always valued women pursuing further education, AKF’s Sarah Ter* describes how attitudes are slowly shifting. After decades of war in Afghanistan, access to education remains a challenge and the illiteracy rate is…
On Saturday 6 July, the Aga Khan Centre hosted the inaugural illuminate event, an exciting new programme that offers aspiring students insight into transformational ideas that are shaping the developing world today. The aim of illuminate was to broaden horizons,…
Aga Khan Foundation (India)’s Project Lehar, which means wave in Urdu, works to empower and improve the quality of life of out-of-school adolescent girls. It takes a three pronged empowerment approach for adolescents, comprising of scholastic support, vocational training and…
Community owned centres provide safe, healthy and joyful environments to ensure hopeful futures for pre-primary children. Shubhi Vijay & Lukhimai Linnebank report from Bihar. The early childhood years between 0 and 6 are critical for the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and…
Dr Matt Reed is the CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation, UK. This article is an adaptation of a op-ed that was published by the Huffington Post on International Women’s Day, 8th March 2016. View it here. Two years ago,…
Path-breaking report launched at World Economic Forum demonstrates the importance of private education in addressing the continent’s education crisis. Despite extraordinary gains in access, tens of millions of African children and young people do not have access to high-quality education.…
Tinni Sawhney, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation India, in conversation with Matt Reed, CEO AKF (UK), discussed how the Foundation is enhancing women’s financial security, improving incomes and promoting safe sanitation that provides both dignity and security. View the video…
For more than 15 years, the Aga Khan Development Network and the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust have worked in partnership to improve the quality of life and human health for those most in need. Jane Griffiths, Johnson &…
Gulnara Kasmambetova, Senior Producer for BBC Kyrgyz, presented a feature piece produced by the BBC about UCA and led a discussion with Shamsh. Ahead of the launch of the first undergraduate campus in September, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Executive Chairman, UCA Board…