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society governance. It provides the services of construction of the Humayun’s Tomb Site In collaboration with its partners AKDN in India: its planners, architects and engineers and brings Museum. When completed, the Museum will a strong community-centred approach to build connect visitors to the monuments within the well-designed, soundly engineered and affordable Sunder Nursery and Humayun’s Tomb Complex – housing and institutional buildings in urban and rural and place in context the art, architecture history settings, benefiting 6,500 households. and culture of the Mughal era. 1.6 million 66,000 2 million Culture • Qutb Shahi Royal Tombs, Hyderabad In 2013, AKTC signed a 10-year Memorandum of Is impacting the lives of 1.6 million Has facilitated access to Has helped restore Humayun's The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) undertakes Understanding to begin the restoration of the Qutb Tomb, a site that now receives poor and disadvantaged people sanitation for 66,000 households cultural activities in India. The largest cultural project Shahi Royal Tombs in Hyderabad. The Quli Qutb 2 million visitors annually in rural areas in six states to date has been the restoration and revitalisation Shah Archaeological Park includes 70 structures, of Humayun's Tomb and its gardens, a site that encompassing 40 mausoleums, 23 mosques, five Continued from page 2 is visited by two million people a year, including step-wells/water structures, a hamam (mortuary 500,000 children. bath), pavilions, garden structures and enclosure schools, two pre-primary schools, one hostel and The Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) operates India walls built during the reign of the Qutb Shahi 17 early child development (day care) centres in the Prince Aly Khan Hospital, a 162-bed multi- • Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative, Delhi Dynasty that ruled the Hyderabad region for 170 Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana. Through these specialty acute care hospital in Mumbai, established With distinct conservation, socioeconomic and years in the 16th and 17th centuries. interventions, AKES provides education to 8,500 in 1945. The ISO-certified hospital is best known environmental development objectives, this students every year. Since its establishment in India, for its services in oncology and cardiovascular project aims to unify the three segregated areas Economic Development AKES schools have educated over 65,500 children. diseases, and is renowned as a referral centre of Humayun’s Tomb - Nizamuddin Basti - Sunder regionally and internationally. It is equipped with an Nursery into an urban conservation zone of To encourage the creation of strong and efficient In response to the need to support children’s operating complex, oncology department, cardiology considerable breadth and cultural significance, capital markets and provide essential financial development and create awareness amongst the department, 24-hour emergency service and a day while improving the quality of life for resident services, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic parents of first-generation learners, AKES started surgery unit. It has sophisticated intensive care, populations. Social improvements include the Development (AKFED) provides an institutional the Rural Education Advancement Programme, renal dialysis, a centre for gastrointestinal diseases, upgrading of health and education facilities, umbrella for banks and insurance companies in which runs pre-primary and upgraded rural primary a NABL-accredited pathology lab and blood bank, restoration of parks and public spaces, the eastern Africa, Central Asia and South Asia. These education centres in Gujarat and Maharashtra, a cancer rehabilitation clinic and a host of other installation of toilets, the revitalisation of canals project companies work on a commercial basis, but and uses the Shishu Pahel Paddhati (child-initiated facilities. and the implementation of drainage facilities. all profits are reinvested in further development. learning) methodology developed by AKES. This methodology has been scaled up, notably in Bihar Outpatient services include free medical At Sunder Nursery, AKTC has been engaged DCB Bank, founded in India in the 1930s, offers and Uttar Pradesh, and is now being used by AKDN consultations for the poor, palliative care and in undertaking major landscape, infrastructure retail, commercial and consumer banking services in as part of an Anganwadi (government child care programmes focused on the prevention and development, ecological conservation and the SME and corporate segments of the economy. SOCIAL centre) improvement programme in Gujarat. early detection of oral and breast cancer. It also monument restoration works to create a public It has 312 state-of-the-art branches across Andhra implements Menstrual Hygiene Management park. Works undertaken include: the creation Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi/NCR, Goa, CULTURAL The Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad was established programmes in schools and runs a network of health of 90-acres of green space; planting of 20,000 Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya in 2011 as the second in a planned network of centres in Hyderabad. plants and 280 tree species; conservation of 15 Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, ECONOMIC 18 K-12 schools across 14 countries. It was set monuments including tombs, garden pavilions, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, up with the aim of educating talented students The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) is a and wells; and, the building of public amenities. West Bengal and Union Territories of Chandigarh, from all backgrounds to become home-grown national-level emergency response and habitat In 2015, AKTC and its partners began Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli. leaders, who can transform societies of the future. development agency. It plays a critical role in Students are selected based on merit, regardless of supporting communities to prepare for, respond to socioeconomic background, race, religion or culture, and recover from natural disasters. Implementation and financial aid is provided to ensure access. approaches include training on search and rescue, Support AKDN For more information The Academy provides education of the highest creation of Incident Command Systems and Partnerships Aga Khan Foundation (India) quality within the framework of the International Emergency Operation Centres, strengthening early Sarojini House, 2nd floor When AKDN refines its development approach in a given area, 6, Bhagwan Dass Road Baccalaureate curriculum to girls and boys from warning systems and developing multi-hazard it looks to partners to help expand the scale. A significant New Delhi 110001, India grades K-12, preparing them for lives characterised disaster risk management plans for both urban and portion of the funding for its activities therefore comes from Tel: +91 (11) 4739 9700 by leadership and service. rural settlements. To date, 56,500 schoolchildren national governments, multilateral institutions and private Website: http://www.akdn.org/india have been trained in school disaster preparedness sector partners. For more information, visit: akdn.org/partners The Academies are also committed to improving and 1.7 million children have participated in mock Individuals © AKDN, February 2018. Information contained in this brief can be reproduced standards of education in the areas where they safety and evacuation drills. with acknowledgement to AKDN. Photo credits: AKDN / Mansi Midha; Gary are situated. The campus in Hyderabad includes Individuals can support the AKDN. For more information, Otte; Amit Pasricha; Christian Richters; Aga Khan Cultural Services, India a Professional Development Centre that helps AKAH also trains local masons in multi-hazard visit: akdn.org/support strengthen the quality of teaching in the region resistant housing and increases stakeholders by providing professional development training for awareness on the merits of safe housing Cover page: (top left to right) Infant health care; community mobilisation; Aga Khan Academy Hyderabad; (middle left to right) government school educators. construction, regular maintenance and good housing Humayun's Tomb; Social, Cultural, Economic: the nature of positive change that AKDN institutions and programmes aim to achieve; goat rearing to raise household incomes; (bottom left to right) AKES classroom; disaster preparedness training; safe hygiene. www.akdn.org page 5 page 6 AKDN in India Education Health Agriculture & Food Security AKDN has an integrated The Prince Aly Khan Hospital The Network works in The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) In line with its focus on empowering women and approach to education in India in Mumbai, established in over 2,800 villages across has a long history in India, dating back to the adolescent girls, AKF provides scholastic support, focused on providing the best 1945, is an ISO-certified Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya establishment of the first Aga Khan school in life skills education and vocational training to quality learning opportunities hospital best known for its Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to all sections of society, while services in oncology and and has helped improve Mundra, Gujarat, in 1905. Eight of AKDN’s adolescent girls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The aim also supporting government cardiovascular diseases. It the quality of life for over 11 agencies are operational in the country, is to enable girls who have dropped out of school to institutions to improve the is renowned as a referral 1.6 million people in these implementing