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The Naturalist and Chef from Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge in Kenya distribute seedlings and provide horticultural training to members of the local community. With these new skills, the Maasai not only have a safer, more steady and diversified food supply, they also have the prospect of harvesting surplus and selling it back to the Lodge for additional income.
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The Aga Khan Foundation operates a training programme for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Egypt, funded by the European Commission. The programme has helped strengthen 25 local CSOs in 17 villages in rural Aswan. The activities have reached over 80,000 beneficiaries and created 450 jobs.
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In rural Afghanistan, the Aga Khan Foundation provides vocational training for men and women -many of whom are refugee returnees - to increase their employability and entrepreneurship. In 2017, more than 1,100 young men and women (78% women) received market-driven vocational training in 14 different areas including construction, service, beekeeping (photo), handicraft and agriculture. Some 75% of the trainees have found jobs or started their own businesses.
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Artisans in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan produce traditional slippers and other textiles. The group's entrepreneurial activities are supported by the Aga Khan Foundation.
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Aga Khan Academy Mombasa students come on a voluntary basis throughout the year to share their love of science with younger students at Mbaraki Primary & Secondary Girls School in Kenya.
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In rural Tajikistan, the Aga Khan Foundation has helped foster a network of over 1,600 village organisations and 105 social unions, reaching almost 700,000 people.
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The director of “AM Live” and her crew produce the live morning broadcast from the NTV control room in Nairobi, Kenya. NTV is owned by Nation Media Group, the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa, serving audiences in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda.
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At the state-owned Jomok kindergarten in Osh, Kyrgyz Republic, the Aga Khan Foundation provides teacher training in the latest early childhood development pedagogies and techniques, as well as classroom materials.
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Since 2005, over 80,000 smallholder rice farmers supported by the Aga Khan Foundation in Madagascar have increased their yields by up to three-fold, helping to end the hungry season for their families. In additional to providing technical support and training, the programme supports community-based savings groups that allow poor farming households to quickly access savings or credit, be it to pay for school fees or planting labour or to defer selling harvests to a time when prices are higher.
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In Altit, Pakistan, the Leif Larsen Music Centre permits traditional musicians and performers of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral to train youth in different traditions and genres of mountain music.
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From May 2017 to April 2020, the Aga Khan Foundation and it partners undertook the Improving Adolescents’ Lives in Afghanistan programme to work with over 176,720 adolescents and young adults in the Afghan central highlands, helping them to gain the confidence and skills and opportunities necessary to act as effective agents of change in their communities.
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The University of Central Asia’s Mountain Societies Research Institute studies the major factors affecting the livelihoods of mountain societies.
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In India, the Aga Khan Foundation works closely with parents and caregivers to promote cognitive, social and physical development of children through its Reading for Children and Care for Child Development programmes.
AKDN / Mansi Midha
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The Aga Khan University (AKU) has been involved in a number of social-economic activities in Tanzania. This includes the Arusha Community Outreach Centre, which aims to improve the wellbeing of local communities through income generation, farming workshops that in turn promote food security (photo), social engagement, and access to health and life skills services.
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In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, with funding from UKAID, the Aga Khan Foundation worked with a number of communities to install clean drinking water systems, establish the governance structures to ensure their long-term sustainability and foster improved social cohesion between communities.
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For over 15 years, conservationist Maurice Undah at the Mombasa Serena Beach Resort & Spa (Kenya) has been educating guests and schoolchildren about butterflies, their brief life cycles, and how their presence or absence can tell us a lot about the local environment and climatic changes.
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At the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dr Neelam Ismail, an Aga Khan University Postgraduate Medical Education resident doctor, makes rounds in the maternity ward.
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Young parents like Everlyne Sayo in Kenya, who work at Frigoken or Premier Foods – project companies of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development – benefit from quality on-site crèche services.
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In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the Aga Khan Foundation supports 123 village development organisations (VDOs) on campaigns and projects that address various problems. In the agriculture sector, VDOs have promoted the adoption of Conservation Agriculture techniques and promote opportunities for women in production and marketing.
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
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In Lisbon, Portugal, the Aga Khan Foundation’s urban community support programme, K’Cidade, works to bring together community members of different ethnicities and ages. Over the years, there has been increasingly greater ease in gathering these different groups together to help mobilise community improvement and development.
AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura
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The Global Centre for Pluralism in Ottawa, Canada, undertakes activities to promote more inclusive societies that ensure that all people are recognised and feel they belong. Deborah Ahenkorah, a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and book publisher - and one of the winners of the 2019 Global Pluralism Award - delivers remarks during the Award ceremony.
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