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Kyrgyzstan attaches great importance to cooperation with the Aga Khan Development Network. Vice Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament Asiya Sasykbaeva met with Princess Zahra Aga Khan. A. Sasykbaeva noted that the Aga Khan Development Network provides assistance to projects in social sector, particularly in education and health care.

The Aga Khan Planning and Building Service (AKPBS) has been working for the social and rural development of Chitral for the last three decades. “We arrange seminars, workshops and sensitize the masses about health and hygiene related issues and the negative impact of using contaminated water.” This was stated by officials of the AKBPS at a seminar they organized in Booni the other day...The speakers said 70 per cent diseases were caused by the use of muddy and contaminated water.

Roshan, Afghanistan's leading total communications provider, today announced it was the recipient of three awards at the Ninth Annual International Business Awards in Seoul, South Korea. More than 3,200 entries from organizations and individuals across the world vied for the prestigious Stevie awards. Roshan Chief Executive Officer Karim Khoja was awarded the Silver Stevie, winning the title of 'Executive of the Year' for the telecommunications category.

A two-pronged youth development strategy for Chitral has been put into [action] by Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) which will deal with employability and civic leadership issues in the local context.

The $900 million Bujagali hydropower plant has been commissioned, injecting an extra 250 Megawatts into Uganda’s electricity grid. The plant, whose construction has taken about five years, has doubled Uganda’s power generation capacity to 509MW. Bujagali was commissioned by the Aga Khan and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni at the Jinja site two months after it started commercial production.

40-day-old Ahmed from Dera Allah Yar, Balochistan, became the first patient in Pakistan to survive on an artificial heart-lung machine for three days.To save Ahmed’s life, the paediatric cardiac and critical care team of the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi, set-up a customised heart-lung bypass system machine, which is not available anywhere in Pakistan...The Hospital’s Patient Welfare Programme and the Patients’ Behbud Society for AKUH supported Ahmed’s family.

Once an active zone for drug peddlers, parks in Hazrat Nizamuddin area now bustle with people and children who now throng in large numbers. The DDA park, which is located at a land of five acres at the edge of Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti in south Delhi, was frequented only by two per cent of the local population till 2008 when it was taken up for landscaping...After exhaustive community consultation, the landscape design was made and distinct usage was allotted to each of the three major parks.

As part of their ongoing collaboration which has spanned the last fifteen years, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Aga Khan Foundation Tajikistan (AKF Tjk) on October 9 confirmed two additional projects to help improve the quality of life of all people of Tajikistan.

The Khintla village in Sayla taluka of Surendranagar district stands free of sewage spilling onto its roads and the garbage heaps. The village has undergone a makeover with every household enjoying proper sanitation facilities.The change has come about following the implementation of a project by British Maritime Technology Group Ltd (BMT) in partnership with Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) India.

The power plant was built through a public-private partnership between Uganda government, Sithe Global and Industrial Promotion Services, the infrastructure and industrial development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development...The Aga Khan noted that Bujagali was not only a transformative development in the economic life of Uganda and the continent, but also an inspiring model of how such change can be best accomplished