We work in more than a dozen countries in Africa and Asia, promoting innovative, sustainable solutions to critical development challenges. Countries do not exist in isolation from the complexities of their region, and many communities straddle porous borders. For this reason, we take a regional approach to program design, connecting sustainable improvements to quality of life to the development of the region as a whole.
Mellissa Fung’s reporting project focused on women’s rights in post-NATO Afghanistan.
Marc Ellison’s reporting project focused on child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania.
While program has transformed lives in the classroom, it has lifted up women in the community as well.
Jane Wanyama is the CEO of Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu. Her position is rare for a woman in East Africa – or for that matter, anywhere in the world.
The Madrasa Program also transforms the lives of the teachers who come through its doors, by training existing and future teachers.
Across Aga Khan Foundation’s global education programs, I’d often heard about school classrooms that held upwards of eighty, one hundred, even two hundred students at one time.
The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, it is said, sets the stage for all future growth.
Midwives are often on the frontlines of health care in developing countries, delivering crucial patient-centered care to women and their
The world’s 1.1 billion girls are a source of power, energy, and creativity.
