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The Vanj Cross-Border Bridge, Tajikistan. The Vanj Bridge joins three other bridges at Darwaz, Tem, and Ishkashim as part of the Aga Khan Development Network’s multi-sector cross-border development strategy.
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A Community Based Savings Group supported by AKF through the ESCOMIAD programme with funding from USAID.
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This greenhouse business in Mehrgon is part of a Common Interest Group supported by AKF through the ESCOMIAD programme with funding from USAID.
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Established in 1998, the Aga Khan Lycée (AKL) in Khorog is the first privately operated school in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). It is part of the Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) in 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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This confectionary shop in Ishkashim was established by a graduate of the UCA SPCE Small and Medieum Enterprise Management course. The course was supported through the ESCOMIAD project funded by USAID.
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This beekeeper in Barchdev village is part of a Common Interest Group of other beekeepers supported by AKF through ESCOMIAD and funded by USAID.
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A group of engineers surveys the site of Pamir Energy's new Hydro Power Plant in Murghab. The renewable energy produced by Pamir Energy’s plants has limited greenhouse emissions, which has allowed Pamir Energy to generate revenue by selling carbon credits.
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As a result of Pamir Energy’s efforts, 70 percent of its customers in GBAO (those who are connected to the main grid) now enjoy 24 hours of power a day for the first time since the end of the Soviet era, while the remaining 30 percent receive 16-18 hours of power a day.
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Gulniso is part of an AKF established Community-based Savings Groups (CBSGs). She took out a loan to buy ingredients, electricity, and the staff salary. She also had a grant from USAID to buy machinery and an oven. She now employs 6 staff and produces an assortment of cakes and pastries for weddings, birthdays, and everyday occasions.
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In Roshtqala, Tajikistan, the Aga Khan Foundation supports a programme that links "Pamiri Yarn" – a cashgora-producing women's group – to buyers in the USA. The business benefits Tajik and American artisans, as well as cashgora goat producers in the Pamirs.
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A confectionary business in Tajikistan, which is part of a programme that helps create jobs and economic growth, is supported by the Aga Khan Foundation and AKDN’s First Microfinance Bank.
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Students at work in the laboratory, Khorog UCA campus. The University of Central Asia (UCA) was established to promote the social and economic development of Central Asia, particularly its mountain societies, by offering an internationally recognised standard of higher education, and helping the peoples of the region to preserve and draw upon their rich cultural traditions as assets for the future.
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Qodirsho is a beneficiary of an AKF wheat programme. AKF supplies farming equipment, works with farmer groups to disseminate good techniques and provides help with selling the end product. Qodirsho has enough food for his family and sells the excess and also the seeds for an income.
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Master embroider Rahima (left) started her own business with the help of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF). She now employs 10 women and sells her pieces in local markets and exhibits them in northern Tajikistan.
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The Tem bridge is one of four between Afghanistan and Tajikistan constructed by the AKDN. There are a number of points like these on the Pyanj river, which marks the long border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan; they are important transit points for much of the supplies and trade between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, including food aid, and some cross-border marketing by traders on both sides of the river.
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Early Childhood Development (ECD) class, Rijist Primary and Secondary School, Roshtqala. This school is supported by AKF through the ESCOMIAD project funded by USAID.
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Water supply system, Murghab, Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast.
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Juice production business, Vanj - This business is part of a Common Interest Group supported by AKF through the ESCOMIAD programme with funding from USAID.
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Opening of a new PECTA Tourism Centre at Bulunkul in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan. The Pamirs Eco-Cultural Tourism Association (PECTA) has been successful in bringing attention to the area and building tourism in sustainable ways that benefit local communities. The Pamirs won a Green Destinations award and was named one of the “World’s Top 100 Sustainable Destinations”.
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AKF supported greenhouse, Bartang Valley.
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Khorog 1 Hydro Power Plant, Tajikistan. Since 2002, Pamir Energy has restored 11 micro hydro power plants and upgraded 4,300km of transmission lines, as well as distribution facilities.
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AKFED’s current investments in Tajikistan are in the sectors of energy, telecommunications and tourism. Project companies include PamirEnergy, Tcell and Serena Hotels.
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For more than 25 years and through most of the country’s post-independence history, the AKDN has worked towards the vision of an economically dynamic, politically stable, intellectually vibrant and culturally tolerant Tajikistan. To help celebrate Independence Day on 9 September, we have prepared this photo gallery to highlight some of the Network’s activities and introduce some of the hundreds of thousands of Tajiks who are helping to realise this vision.
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