Pakistan

Enhancing Employability And Leadership For Youth (EELY)

Duration: 2011-2017 Location: Pakistan Reach: 252,000 people (114,200 women and 137,800 men) Budget: $19 million (Global Affairs Canada: $16 million; AKFC:

Partnership For Advancing Human Development In Africa And Asia (PAHDAA)

Duration: 2012-2018 Location: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Canada, Egypt, Uganda, India, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania

Access to Quality Care through Extending and Strengthening Health Systems (AQCESS)

AQCESS is improving the health of mothers, pregnant women, newborns, and children in Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, and Pakistan.

Integrated Newborn Care Kit (iNCK)

Duration: 2018-2024 Location: Afghanistan, Pakistan Reach: 37,000 pregnant women Budget:$2.179 million (Grand Challenges Canada: $1.1 million; AKFC: $1 million; Other: 79K)

It takes a village

We were all once children. We were all once young, full of hope and potential.

Feeding Her Community

Lal and Samantha live worlds apart, but their lives are more similar than it seems at first glance.

We are there

For vulnerable communities in remote, high mountain valleys across Central Asia, lives are changing.

World Health Day: 4.5 million reasons to celebrate

Four years ago, Laya Hoor took a walk through the village of Ghulmet, on the banks of the Hunza River. The craggy peaks of northern Pakistan’s mountain ranges rose around her on all sides, so high that they skimmed the clouds drifting by.

Carving out a better life

Several wooden spoons and forks are perched on a table as Fatima puts the finishing touches on another one. Around her, other carpenters are carving signs, measuring material, and smoothing out large pieces of wood for new projects.