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What is PartnershipsInAction?
PartnershipsInAction is an initiative of Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) and its network of volunteers across the U.S. to raise awareness and funds for innovative programs that create hope and opportunity for disadvantaged communities in the developing world. Inspired by the tremendous success of Partnership Walk, which was launched in 1995, PartnershipsInAction inform, educate and inspire Americans about the power of partnerships in creating a more secure, peaceful and prosperous future for people around the world. We live in a world where half the world’s population lives on less than $2 per day. As global citizens, you can become part of the solution to end global poverty and play an active role in helping communities become self-reliant. PartnershipsInAction events and activities give Americans an opportunity to actively take part in advancing grassroots democracy, dignity and peace around the globe. Through volunteerism, awareness-raising and contributions, events range from Partnership Walk to Partnership Golf to global education activities, involving young and old in a compassionate effort to reduce hunger, disease, illiteracy and poverty.
PartnershipsInAction unite Americans as global citizens with communities in Africa and Asia to build bridges of hope, reaching across boundaries of race, religion and gender. Participants, sponsors, partners and volunteers are part of a worldwide movement, mobilizing around the universal Millennium Development Goals to cut global poverty in half by 2015.
What is the Aga Khan Foundation and what does it do?
Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. is a nonprofit, non-denominational international development organization that is committed to alleviating poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy, primarily in Asia and Africa. It works with communities at the grassroots level to strengthen their capacity to solve local problems. The Foundation’s mission is to help communities transform their lives from a situation of poverty to an environment of opportunity and choice. Its programs extend to people irrespective of gender, origin or religion. The Foundation is geographically focused on selected countries in South and Central Asia, East Africa and the Middle East.Aga Khan Foundation undertakes projects in five key areas:
- health
- education
- rural development
- civil society – building the capacity of local community organizations
- environment
The Foundation seeks to address the root causes of poverty by creating and sharing solutions that help end human suffering and improve the quality of life. The Foundation is presently engaged in over 100 projects in 18 countries. Countries where its projects take place include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Uganda. AKF also has offices in Canada, Portugal, United Kingdom, and United States, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., a private, non-profit development agency, started in 1981 to promote sustainable and equitable social development. The Foundation was established in 1967 in Geneva by His Highness the Aga Khan, the 49thImam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims. The Foundation is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network, a group of private development agencies founded by His Highness the Aga Khan, with mandates ranging from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, disaster reduction, rural development, the promotion of private sector enterprise and the revitalization of historic cities.
The Foundation’s programs are funded with the generous assistance of more than 60 national and international development agencies and many thousands of individual and corporate donors. It collaborates with other like-minded organizations dedicated to international development, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of State, American Red Cross, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Citigroup Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, among others. The Foundation upholds the conviction that everyone has the right to the dignity that comes from self-reliance. It operates on the principle that effective social and economic progress is based on partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
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