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The Aga Khan's white building in Ottawa was awaraded the Governor General's Medal in Architecture, putting Canadian architecture on the world stage.

The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) offers an example of an effective aid program that focuses on the development of institutions, invests in the smallest scale of the community and has the capability to carry out long project timelines.

UN-Habitat partnered with Islamabad Serena Hotel to celebrate Earth Day 2012 through a tree plantation and waste reduction campaign with UN-Habitat facilitated Environment Clubs in urban schools.

One of Kenya’s oldest urban gardens, Nairobi’s City Park, is to undergo a major restoration after decades of misuse and neglect.

The 60-hectare green situated in Parklands is to be dramatically transformed under a programme run by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC).

Dr. Hussein Rashid of Hofstra University gave a lecture on the Islamic Contribution to American Music. The event, held at Southern Methodist University, was sponsored by the Aga Khan Council for Nothern Texas.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed yesterday between the Government of Kenya, the Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture, the City Council of Nairobi and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to collaborate in the rehabilitation and restoration of the Nairobi City Park to international standards in terms of architecture, landscape and horticulture.

The Djenné mosque is one of Africa’s most revered religious monuments. Constructed almost entirely from sun-dried mud bricks coated with clay, it is the largest surviving example of a distinctive style of African architecture. In tribute to its status, it has been designated, together with its immediate neighborhood of low-rise adobe houses, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2006 the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, based in Geneva and with a mandate to conserve earthen architecture, declared the mosque in danger of collapse and began an extensive restoration.

On the heels of the successful Fifth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA V), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), together with the Aga Khan Foundation USA and in close collaboration with the Pamir Energy Company, signed an agreement to foster cross-border energy trade between Tajikistan and Afghanistan on March 28, 2012.

Rotary Humanitarian Trust and the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi are providing support to poor and deserving children in Pakistan and India who are suffering from congenital heart disease. 

The Zenana Bagh, or women's park, in Delhi was created through a community initiative started by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.