The Aga Khan Award for Architecture focuses on processes of change in part of the world where the built environment is undergoing rapid transformation, at times with dire consequences.

When the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) learned that many rural Kyrgyz children were missing out on kindergarten during the annual migration to the “jailoo”, or high pastures, for four to five months a year, it started a programme to bring early childhood education to the mountains.