During his visit to the north of Pakistan, the Honourable Harjit Sajjan, Canada’s Minister of International Development, met with flood-affected communities and observed relief and recovery efforts that AKDN is undertaking in severely hit areas.
The Aga Khan Development Network is responding to the torrential rains and devastating floods in Pakistan by evacuating residents to safer areas, and providing food, shelter and health care.
The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, which has worked in disaster management in Pakistan for almost 25 years, has been providing advice, evacuation support and relief services during the extreme heat and heavy rains recently causing intense flooding across Pakistan
The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat has introduced a system that uses trees to safely treat wastewater, providing improved sanitation to the community and restoring cleaner water to the Hunza River.
From prediction to reconstruction, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat works with over 2,500 communities in disaster-prone areas to provide nature-based solutions to their safety and preparedness.
Meet Dilshodbegim, 22-year-old Community Emergency Response Team leader in Tajikistan named Youth Goodwill Ambassador. She tells us about her hopes for the Pamir region.
SPOTLIGHT - AKDN has planted over 35 million trees in Asia, which not only help counter climate change but protect communities when floods, landslides or other disasters occur.
The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat continues to provide humanitarian aid and build disaster resilience in Afghanistan. Find out about its latest work in training, construction and communications.
In the West, people who die in avalanches are mostly recreationists but in Central Asia there is no choice for mountain communities and hundreds of deaths are recorded each year. AKAH’s winter preparedness programme seeks to warn and inform.
During the COVID-19 pandemic our agencies and their partners have worked with millions of people in India to help them understand that simple investments in hygiene can be life-saving.