Mahek Shah, a Diploma Programme 1 student at the Aga Khan Academy (AKA) Mombasa, has had a love of flying for as long as she can remember. Through her Middle Years Programme (MYP) curriculum, a part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) at AKA Mombasa, Mahek was able to take her passion and turn it into Wings for Women – a project educating teenage girls in Kenya on becoming pilots.

Afroj Alam works alongside the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and farmers in Bihar to improve the quality of pulse crops and increase the incomes of farmers. In this interview he explains how this work has been disrupted by the pandemic and how he and his partners are adapting to support farmers in the region.