Events

June 9, 2015 - International media coverage of Africa is dominated by foreign correspondents, collecting stamps in their passports as they bounce from one news hotspot to the next. But Nigerian-American journalist Chika Oduah sees a new way forward for coverage of the continent.

June 11, 2015 - In the summer of 2015, 23 accomplished young Canadians took flight around the globe. They spent eight months contributing their energy and skills to organizations in the developing world, working in fields from microfinance to education to journalism. But before the 2015-16 International Youth Fellows embarked on their adventures, AKFC was pleased to celebrate their achievements.

June 17, 2015 – Together with the remarkable progress and increasing global engagement, emerging economies also face a number of new development challenges; rising inequality, navigating the middle-income trap, balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability, ensuring good governance, and addressing the poverty paradox – whereby most of the global poor now live in middle-income countries. These challenges constitute a transformative shift of the current development paradigm based on addressing poverty in low-income countries, forcing traditional donor countries, CSOs and NGOs to re-think their development strategies.

September 22, 2015 - Forget superheroes – these comic book characters are real people. 

November 2015 - From the overthrow of “Baby Doc” Duvalier to recovery from the devastating 2010 earthquake, award-winning documentary photographer Maggie Steber has spent more than three decades working in Haiti. Delving deeper than sensational scenes of poverty and desperation, Maggie’s work brings Haitians’ stories to life with photographs that highlight beauty and humanity in unexpected places.

November 5, 2015 - In 2003, when the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development established the Afghanistan mobile company Roshan, there was virtually no telecommunications infrastructure in the country. Some Afghans actually had to walk to a neighbouring country to make a phone call. Today, Roshan’s 1,000 towers reach more than six million subscribers.

November 6, 2015 - Aga Khan Foundation Canada hosted an Executive Masterclass on the Harvard Business School case study, Roshan: Light at the end of the tunnel in Afghanistan.