Answering the Call: Supporting Tajikistan’s COVID-19 Response

In April 2020, Tajikistan diagnosed their first cases of COVID-19. As news of these cases spread across the country, many... View Article

AKF’s Continued Response to COVID-19 Globally

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a serious global health crisis, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and the Aga... View Article

Celebrating the University of Central Asia’s First Graduating Class

In 2016, the University of Central Asia (UCA) opened its first undergraduate campus in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic and welcomed the... View Article

Public-Private Partnerships for Better Patient Care

As the COVID-19 pandemic developed, medical centers around the world faced a shortage of medical equipment and supplies needed to... View Article

From Empty Rooms to Holistic Classrooms

In the center of Murghab district in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), children under five years old did not have many... View Article

Local Needs Drive COVID-19 Response

As trucks carrying food packages reached Tajikistan’s Bartang Valley in late 2020, the residents of Basid village made their way... View Article

Improving Tajikistan’s Potato Harvest: Saidrahmonova’s Story

Every day after she wakes up, Saidrahmonova Makhfirat prays, drinks her tea, and goes to her farm.

Emerging Leaders: Building Skills through Student Councils

Nestled in the Pamir Mountains, Murghab district is on the eastern side of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) in Tajikistan. Murghab... View Article

Rising to the Challenge: UCA Equips Youth to Address Local and Global Issues

As Hangoma went about her sophomore year at the University of Central Asia’s (UCA) campus in Khorog, Tajikistan, life changed... View Article

Making Masks for Rural Communities in Tajikistan

Roziyamo Kabirova lives in a remote village in the scenic Wakhan Valley, in Ishkoshim district of Tajikistan that borders Afghanistan... View Article