To restore, to create, to revitalise and rejuvenate beautiful green spaces has been one of the prime goals of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in recent years and Chief Architect and CEO, Ratish Nanda has been a part of the restoration and redevelopment project of the Sunder Nursery for more than a decade. The TIME Magazine’s declaration of naming the Sunder Nursery (Delhi’s Central Park) amongst 100 best places in the world comes as a moment of recognition even as it affirms the need and urgency to create green lungs in a country that has forgotten its history, and its temples and monuments stand like fossils in a time warp.

On 11 October in Maputo, the Vice-Minister for Agriculture and Food Security in Mozambique, Luísa Celma Caetano Meque, congratulated the Ismaili community and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) for contributing to the development and wellbeing of Mozambicans. She also stated that the collaboration with AKDN was crucial for the development of projects in priority areas defined by the Government, with emphasis in agriculture, health and education. The cooperation between the Government and AKDN has been a strategic partnership that has encompassed the creation of more than a thousand jobs and the development of projects that benefit more than 200,000 Mozambicans.