Shafiqa* lives in a remote village in Afghanistan’s Takhar province. As a widow, she shoulders the weight of providing for her household of ten. In the past, Shafiqa’s family relied on livestock rearing, but when her husband passed away she…
Sitting 3,270 meters above sea level, Tajikistan’s Murghab district grapples with an unforgiving climate. The arid and mountainous landscape along with winter temperatures as low as -24°C make vegetable cultivation almost impossible. The mainstay of the population in one of…
According to the Report on the 2022 United Nations’ Transforming Education Summit, over 80 countries plan to include climate education in their national curricula. Now the challenge is to design climate education policy and implementation plans in ways that are ambitious,…
Reinforcing its commitment to making education transformation an achievable reality for every country in the world, Dubai Cares unveiled its ‘Global Education Solutions Accelerator’ (GESA) at COP28. AKF will act as a strategic partner for the Accelerator, aiming to fast-track…
Sports day in Syria, low carbon agriculture in India, and murals in Mozambique: scroll down to see what we’ve been up to this month. Women in Mtwara, a rural area of southern Tanzania, join discussions about how to strengthen sexual…
For Kashif*, a local resident in northern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, the successful transformation of ten hectares of uncultivated land into highly productive farmland has, quite literally, borne fruit. In the arid region of Afghanistan where Kashif lives, water shortages pose…
After school ends at 3pm in Baniyani village, Uttar Pradesh, children eagerly rush to their favourite place: ‘Child Junction’. Here, they spend their evenings playing, exploring, and sharing with each other. Child Junction offers a sensory-rich environment, supporting the cognitive,…
In the Kyrgyz Republic’s urban areas, only 34% of children attend kindergarten, whilst in rural areas the number is even lower at 20%. Despite proactive measures by the government, such as reinstating state-owned kindergarten buildings into functional kindergartens, offering tax…
Building on a successful nine-year collaboration in Mozambique, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and ”la Caixa” Foundation’s JUNTOS! initiative was launched in Portugal yesterday. JUNTOS! – meaning ‘together’ in Portuguese – will strengthen civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Porto…
Celebrating World Teachers’ Day in Kenya, curious cashgora goats in Tajikistan, and supporting young female mechanics in Uganda: scroll down to see what we’ve been up to this month. To celebrate World Teachers’ Day, AKF facilitated an action-packed event in…