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Aga Khan Development Network brochure

The Aga Khan Development Network is a group of private, international, non-denominational agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people in specific regions of the developing world. The Network’s organisations have individual mandates that range from the fi elds of health and education to architecture, rural development and the promotion of private-sector enterprise. Together they collaborate in working towards a common goal – to build institutions and programmes that can respond to the challenges of social, economic and cultural change on an ongoing basis. This brochure introduces the Network’s principal agencies and provides an overview of their activities and goals. This publication is also available in French, Arabic and Portuguese.

The Global Convocation Ceremony of the Aga Khan University

Speaker: 
Dr Peter Kalmus
Speech Date: 
Saturday, 26 February 2022 - 7:15pm

“We need to help each other wake up, and quickly. We need a billion climate activists. We need to build a global climate movement that’s even stronger than the fossil fuel industry. We need a huge number of engaged, passionate, courageous climate activists.”

The Global Convocation Ceremony of the Aga Khan University

Speaker: 
Mr Adnan Ali Khan
Speech Date: 
Saturday, 26 February 2022 - 7:00pm

“I can safely say that this class of AKU graduates will be one of the most tenacious, resilient and open-minded groups of professionals to come from this institution. I think I speak for my entire class when I say this: We are ready.”

The Global Convocation Ceremony of the Aga Khan University

Speaker: 
President Sulaiman Shahabuddin
Speech Date: 
Saturday, 26 February 2022 - 6:45pm

“Graduands, our alumni – your predecessors – walked the same corridors and courtyards that you have walked and learned in the same clinics and classrooms. They wore the same green and gold that you wear now. And every day, they are proving just how powerful an AKU education can be.”

More than 660 students graduate at AKU’s global convocation

More than 660 students in Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda graduated from the Aga Khan University in a live-streamed Global Convocation Ceremony that was watched by viewers around the world. The ceremony in Nairobi was attended in-person by Princess Zahra Aga Khan and saw the University commit to becoming carbon neutral in its operations by 2030.

 

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