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Education for Marginalized Children in Kenya (EMACK) aims to improve access and retention rates for primary school students in historically underserved groups, especially in Nairobi, Coast and North Eastern provinces. EMACK’s Whole School approach engages parents and community stakeholders in children’s learning processes, develops a community of reading, and supports identification of school challenges and solutions by School Management Committees.
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Reading for Children public library, Waht, Pakistan. Around the world, agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network work with children and adults to enhance literacy.
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This Government Model High School in Ali Abad, Hunza, Pakistan, is supported by the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) as part of its School Improvement Programme (SIP). In Pakistan, AKF activities in early childhood development provide more than 35,000 students and their families with quality early childhood development opportunities, in both urban and rural settings.
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AKU School of Nursing and Midwifery students providing support to women and children at Hananasif Health Center in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as part of their outreach activities.
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In the Kyrgyz Republic, the introduction of shift systems, satellite kindergartens and jailoo (pasture) kindergartens by the Aga Khan Foundation has increased access to Early Childhood Development in Osh and Naryn districts to 17% percent above the national average.
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Established in 1998, the Aga Khan Lycée in Khorog is the first privately operated school in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan. Each year, the Lycée educates over 1,000 students from grades 0 to 11 with a graduation rate above 95 percent.
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Since 2006, the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul has invested over US$ 16 million in its Patient Welfare Programme, changing the lives of over 200,000 patients from all 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
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In Portugal, K’Cidade, AKF’s urban community support programme, brings together people from different backgrounds and ages by involving them in community improvement and development activities.
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In India, AKF is raising awareness about safe sanitation and key hygiene messages through village rallies. Here school children in Bihar set off through their village to sing sanitation-focused songs. These reinforce their understanding and also spread the message to their community.
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As part of the AKF Enhancing Food Security and Incomes initiative in Cabo Delgado - the northernmost and poorest province of Mozambique where one out of two children suffer from stunting - mothers bring their young children for mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) screening. MUAC is an indicator of mortality risk associated with malnutrition, and can identify children most in need of treatment or supplementary feeding programmes.
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With Dubai Cares, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in East Africa is integrating information and communications technology (ICT) into its programming.
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AKDN Early Childhood Development programmes are concerned with ensuring that young children have a good start in life. They address health, nutrition, care, education, and protection from harm. The Aga Khan Early Childhood Development centre in Khorog, Tajikistan, was inaugurated in January 2018.
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The Aga Khan Academy in Maputo is the third in the network of Aga Khan Academies. It follows the highly successful model established by the first two Academies in Mombasa and Hyderabad. The Academy opened its Junior School in 2013 and is expanding to include the Senior School and a residential programme.
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In March 2019, Princess Zahra Aga Khan and the Prime Minister of Tanzania - Hon. Kassim Majaliwa launched the completion of the second phase of a US$ 79.8 million expansion of the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam, which now serves over one million patients each year.
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There are more than 200 Aga Khan schools and educational programmes across Asia and Africa. More than 75,000 girls and boys are enrolled at these schools, which offer the respective national curricula, and some countries also offer international curricula.
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In Afghanistan, the Aga Khan University manages the French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children as part of a partnership with the governments of France and Afghanistan and the French NGO La Chaine de L’Espoir. It is part of the AKDN’s broader health system, which provides quality primary and curative health care to over 1.6 million Afghans every year.
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The AKDN project company Frigoken, Kenya’s largest exporter of processed green beans, endeavours to forge a better future for the country’s small-scale farmers. The company also implements a comprehensive workplace wellness programme and provides young families with a day-care facility.
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In Coast Province, Kenya, learning on digital literacy Apps like Hadithi! is helping young students to make significant gains in school.
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20 November 2019 - From setting up yurt kindergartens in the high mountain pastures of Kyrgyzstan to providing digital literacy apps for young school children in the remote coastal regions of Kenya, to raising the bar on teaching and nursing credentials across almost all of the countries in which it works, in all of its endeavours the AKDN is committed to creating an environment in which young children can have a healthy, happy and meaningful start in life that cultivates opportunities for a lifetime. Here is selection of photos to celebrate this work on Universal Children’s Day 2019!
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