Greener tourism
15,275
faculty and staff of the Aga Khan University work on 6 campuses and teaching sites over 3 continents.
70%
of the University of Central Asia’s students are from rural areas and secondary towns.
AKDN, Prince William to launch environmental prize
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is partnering with Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, to launch the Earthshot Prize, which aims to incentivise environmental change while helping repair the planet over the next 10 years.
3.8 mio
Nearly 4 million work-days and over 12,000 jobs were created by the parks. The parks leverage the transformative ability of parks to improve the quality of life in the area.
32 mio
32 million visitors have come to the ticketed parks, bringing in local citizens and tourists alike.
407,000
Local beneficiaries in catchment areas of the parks -- many of them ultra-poor -- benefit from the job-creation and restoration training programmes of the Aga Khan Trust for culture.
103
The National Park of Mali in Bamako, created by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, is a large, semi-circular 103-ha canyon of protected forest.
25,000
The Aga Khan garden in Edmonton, Alberta, contains more than 25,000 trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals and wetland plants.