AKDN features Khushi Bajaria, a first year student in the Diploma Programme at AKA Mombasa, who was awarded a grant by the IB for her eco-friendly microscope.
In the Press
The following articles can be found in the press:
Year 10 student Maaher Bhaloo featured on AKDN website for proposing affordable and sustainable electricity for Zanzibar.
The Aga Khan Academies is featured in the Aga Khan Development Network for International Day of Education.
The Aga Khan Development Network features Danish Dhamani, Class of 2013, and his journey to becoming listed in Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 list for a public speaking app he co-founded.
AKDN website highlights how Junior School students at AKA Mombasa have been using art to express their feelings amid the pandemic.
Uganda's newsmagazine, The Independent, features AKA Mombasa alumnus, Ham Serunguji after receiving $USD30 million in funding for his fintech startup, Chipper Cash.
The Director of the Aga Khan Academies, Graham Ranger pens an article for the Nation about how the Academies have been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
AKA Mombasa student, Alyssa Jamal and alumni, Ziyaan Virji are featured in The Ismaili TV in an interview about their initiatives, AICP and AASW respectively, in honour of International Day of the Girl Child.
Academy student Raphael Mwachiti's innovative technology to help visually impaired people is referenced in The Exchange in article about how technology is making Kenya inclusive for the physically challenged.
OpenApply spotlights the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa in their September 2020 issue.
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Celebrating World Environment Day
Happy New Year from the Aga Khan Academies
Dear friends of the Aga Khan Academies,
Happy New Year to you and your families from all of us at the Aga Khan Academies.
As we look toward 2018, I’m pleased to share with you some of the exciting developments that the Academies are anticipating for the coming year.
Across the Aga Khan Development Network, we will be continuing to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of His Highness the Aga Khan, marking 60 years of his enlightened leadership as the Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and founder of the AKDN. The Jubilee commemorations began on 11 July 2017 and will continue until July 2018. The Aga Khan Academies have been running two social media initiatives in honour of the Diamond Jubilee – Academies ‘Journeys’ and ‘60 Stories for 60 Years’ – and these will continue through this July. I hope you are enjoying them.
The Jubilee year marks a time of increasing expansion of the Aga Khan Academies. Construction of the full campus for our third Academy in Maputo, Mozambique has proceeded rapidly, and our students and staff are looking forward to the opening of the beautiful new school buildings that will house students from grades 3–7 in the very near future. The Academy in Maputo also expanded their curricular offering this academic year, having introduced the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme, which has been received very well by our students and teachers.I’m also very pleased to share that our fourth Aga Khan Academy in Dhaka, Bangladesh will begin construction in 2018. The design for the forthcoming Academy won the award for best ‘Future Education’ project at the World Architecture Festival 2017. We’re looking forward to seeing the vision behind the award-winning design come to life, to provide talented students from Bangladesh and the region with a world-class education, regardless of their socioeconomic background.
In 2018 we will also be celebrating 15 years of the Aga Khan Academies network, with our first Academy in Mombasa, Kenya having opened in 2003. During the past 15 years, the Academies have pioneered innovative approaches in a multitude of areas, including the cross-curricular Aga Khan Strands, approaches to leadership development and service learning, campus design for a well-rounded education, talent identification, and developing local teachers into IB practitioners, amongst others. As our network grows, we are continuing to see the power of becoming a global, closely integrated and pluralistic learning community that allows sharing of ideas, expertise and thinking across varied contexts and cultures.
We greatly value your support for the Aga Khan Academies and our collective effort towards creating a better future through education.
Wishing you and your families the very best for 2018.
Warm regards,
Salim A.L. Bhatia
Director of Academies