Pakistan, 10 July 2017 – The Government of Gilgit Baltistan and the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat has agreed on a joint venture to provide clean drinking water to around 6000 households in district Gilgit. The Gilgit Valley- AKDN / Jean Luc Ray The agreement was confirmed in a meeting held between the Chief Executive…
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Aga Khan Foundation receives national sanitation award in India
Delhi, India, 27 April 2017 – The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) was awarded the FICCI- India Sanitation Coalition prize for a model of integrated block-level sanitation that is contributing to the pledge made by India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to eliminate open defecation by October 2019. The Award was delivered by the Minister for…
USAID and AKPBS,P Launch Water and Hygene Project in Murtazaabad, Hunza — Dardistan Times com
(…) “The strategic partnership between USAID and AKPBS,P will improve the quality of life of undeserved communities in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral, and will pave the way to support other communities in the area,” said Nawab Ali Khan, AKBPS,P Chief Executive Officer. The project is anticipated to be a continuation of a success story, as many…
New water project inaugurated — Chitral Today Net|German support to the people of Chitral for having access to clean drinking water
CHITRAL, June 3: German Ambassador Dr. Cyrill Nunn has said the aim of the German support to the people of Chitral for having access to clean drinking water was to make the people healthy so that they could live a happy life. He was speaking in a inaugural ceremony of urban project of drinking water…
Gujarat, India: State stirs the flow for water cooperatives — By Parth Shastri on the Times of India com
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat has given the country — and the world — the concept of cooperation in the fields of banking, housing, milk and production sectors, which runs on the principle of collective ownership. Now one more sector has joined the glorious tradition – water cooperatives. Experts point at the Mohini Water Cooperative Society in Choryasi…
TOI Social Impact Awards 2015: How they came together for some natural choices — Times of India com
In their effort to pick environment category winners, the jury got into an engaging discussion on some contentious ecological issues. The dialogue touched upon questions of scalability of renewable energy vs conventional energy sources and community ownership of solar-powered systems. It culminated in the jury picking the Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative Limited (IFFDC) in…
Bill Gates Drinks Water Made from Poop and Calls It ‘Delicious’ — by Casey Coates Danson on Global Possibilities Org
Environment: Omniprocessors could provide clean water to millions of people in poorer countries. Always with an eye for invention, former Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is championing a new clean water innovation for those living in third-world countries. And where does all this clean water come from? From human waste, and Gates has called it “delicious”…
Desalination plant to be built in Gaza — Yahoo com news
A picture taken on March 20, 2014 shows the implementation of first stone to mark the start of the construction of a major seawater desalination plant in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed) Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – The European Union and UNICEF launched a project Thursday to build…
SDC, AKF-Tjk to implement ‘Water and Sanitation’ and ‘Family Medicine’ programs in communities – Asia Plus News
DUSHANBE, December 22, 2011, Asia-Plus — The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Aga Khan Foundation Tajikistan (AKF-Tjk) confirmed on December 21 that as part of their on-going collaboration they have agreed to implement two additional projects in Tajikistan. According to press release issued by AKF-Tjk, the event was attended by the…
Generosity is an American hallmark, even in tough economies – By Bob Ray Sanders at Star Telegram com
In four consecutive days last week I was reminded how Americans are among the most charitable people in the world, freely giving of their time and money to help others. “snip” Then came Saturday morning, when about 4,500 people of all ages gathered in Plano for an annual event that doesn’t aid…
Gaht Drinking Water Supply Project Inaugurated – Chitral News
MPA Ghulam Muhammad has appreciated the role of German Government and its people in the development of Chitral by providing fund particularly for drinking water sector. He was speaking as a Chief Guest on the occasion of inauguration of two KfW funded clean drinking water supply projects in remote villages, Gaht Payeen and Gaht Bala,…
Chitral,Pakistan: 39 Community Representatives Trained – Chitral news
Chitral — EDO Health Department, Dr Sher Qayum Chitral, has said that availability of safe drinking water can eliminate many water borne diseases in the society. He said this while speaking on the certificate distribution ceremony at the conclusion of two day workshop of training programme organized by Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan, (AKPBSP)…
Afghanistan: About 3000 Ghazni residents get new water supply network
Ghazni PRT Earlier in the week, the second phase of a major development project concluded where a water supply network was expanded in the southern part of Ghazni city. The work was managed by the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). According to a NATO news release today, “almost 8 kilometers of pipeline and necessary…
The unfolding human tragedy in Pakistan
Source:The Lancet.com ***** The health impacts of the catastrophic floods in Pakistan are highlighted in a Podcast and Comment by Professor Zulfi Bhutta, Aga Khan University, Pakistan. As the flood waters recede, the risk of cholera outbreaks and other communicable diseases rise; the priorities for the relief effort are food supplies, clean water, and sanitation,…
Pakistan: Agreement signed for clean drinking water
Source:Tribune com ISLAMABAD: Germany will provide the Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan (AKFP) with a grant of € 3.12 million to improve the drinking water supply and sanitation conditions of Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan areas. This money will be provided for the implementation of the second phase of the Water and Sanitation Extension Program (WASEP), a program…
Aga Khan Foundation has invested $750 million in Afghanistan since 2001
Hope for Afghanistan Obama’s announcement at the beginning of the month redirected America’s attention toward the war in Afghanistan. However, there is another battlefront in the country that has been thriving for years. Non-governmental organizations are on the front lines of development in Afghanistan, creating hope and opportunity for hundreds of thousands. Notably, Aga Khan…
Amnesty International: Underlying the economic crisis is a human rights time bomb
The world is sitting on a social, political and economic time bomb fuelled by an unfolding human rights crisis, said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan today as she launched Amnesty International Report 2009: State of the World’s Human Rights. “Underlying the economic crisis is an explosive human rights crisis,” said Irene Khan. “The economic…
Gender and Climate Change: Poor Women Bear Brunt of Global Warming
Getty Images Where will the water come from? Women in the developing world are set to suffer most as global temperatures rise. With the world struggling to come up with an agreement ahead of December’s Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, one important fact has been overlooked: Women are hit hardest by the extreme weather…
Gilgit-Baltistan: Away from the lunatic fringe – article by Murtaza Razvi, Editor Dawn
-Snip- The indigenous people in the region comprise speakers of several languages and practice four wider faiths. There are the Shina speakers in Gilgit proper, Burushaski speakers in Hunza, Nagar and Gojal, Wakhi speakers in the upper Hunza valley, and then the mainstream Balti speakers spread across Baltistan. There are Ismailis, Twelver Shias, the followers…
Pakistan: ‘24% of country’s hospital beds occupied by waterborne disease patients’
By Amar Guriro KARACHI: Experts from different countries and officials of the Pakistani government, as well as international organisations, have expressed concern over the alarming increase in the number of waterborne and diarrhoeal diseases around the world. The increase is due to the limited access to safe drinking water and the lack of proper sanitation…
