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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.

Prince Rahim Aga Khan visits Mozambique

Prince Rahim Aga Khan arrived in Maputo on Wednesday night for a three-day visit, during which he met senior state officials and attended the inauguration ceremony of the Aga Khan Academy Maputo. Prince Rahim’s visit began at the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Welfare for a meeting with Minister Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane. The Minister congratulated Prince Rahim on the inauguration of the Aga Khan Academy Maputo, as she fondly recalled her childhood, when she and her siblings attended Aga Khan schools in neighbouring Tanzania. Prince Rahim also visited the Presidential Palace in Maputo, where he met with President Filipe Nyusi. 

Mozambique: Heads of State inaugurate Aga Khan Academy, applaud partnership

At the inauguration of the Aga Khan academy in Matola, Maputo province, Prince Rahim Aga Khan pointed out to students that “the future is what they leave behind”. Their actions, choices and decisions will shape times to come. Equipped with numerous support structures on a 22-hectare ‘campus’ in Matola, on the outskirts of Maputo, the Aga Khan Academy will have 90 teachers and a maximum capacity of 750 students, half of whom will attend on bursaries. There are boarding places for 300 students.

Speech by President of the Portuguese Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

Speaker: 
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Speech Date: 
Saturday, 19 March 2022 - 11:00am

“There are millions of children and young people around the world who cannot attend an Academy like this… And the only way to reward the millions that will never get to attend this school is to be the best and the most you can be."

Speech by President of the Republic of Mozambique Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

Speaker: 
President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi
Speech Date: 
Saturday, 19 March 2022 - 10:45am

“With the inauguration of this Academy in the city of Matola… the know-how that will come out of here should become a tool capable of driving the socio-economic development of our country and serve everyone without distinction.”

 

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