“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“This AKU class has worked harder for this moment than any other ever has… In the years to come, you will always be able to look back and draw strength from your achievements during this momentous period.”
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.
Pakistan's President Dr Arif Alvi has stressed the need for technological expertise in the healthcare system, saying that the country’s healthcare system must focus on the preventive side of illness rather than the curative.
In India, the Aga Khan schools – which have been delivering quality early childhood development programmes since 1978 – have developed a home-based blended learning “e-School for Preschool” programme for students aged 3-6 years: 1’000 children across urban and rural regions in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana are learning and connecting digitally from home.
For over 100 years, the AKDN has worked to increase the quality and availability of learning opportunities for students of all ages. Take a tour of this gallery to learn more about what it is doing in education around the world.
More than 90 percent of primary and lower-secondary students in Pakistan have only a weak or basic understanding of the mathematics and science they are required to learn, according to a nationwide study conducted by faculty at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development, Paki
In a region where women have lower earnings and fewer employment opportunities than men, UCA’s School for the Advancement of Gender Equality is helping local organisations to accelerate change by putting gender on the political and legislative agendas.