Opened on Sunday in the city’s Babur Gardens, the exhibit, ‘The Mughals: Arts, Culture and Empire,’ presents numerous prints from the collection of the British Library in London that explore the arts, science and life during that period, which lasted from 1526 to 1858.

At its peak, the Mughal Empire, founded by Babur, a prince from present day Uzbekistan, ruled over the area encompassing India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The exhibit contains several dozen drawings ranging from street scenes, to battles, to colourful portrayals of court life at the Red Fort in the Indian capital of New Delhi. Some of the images show the capital, Kabul, as it was 300 years ago.

“The exhibit is important because it sheds light on Afghanistan’s long history and culture,” said Mohammad Shafiq Mashai, an documentation officer with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), one of the exhibit’s organizers and sponsors. “The Mughal period was a time of great cultural and artistic growth which shows that people can change their mind and their attitudes through interaction with other cultures.”

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The school has a capacity to serve more than 500 students. It will provide access to agricultural education for students from throughout Badakhshan and Afghanistan. The building consists of a two-story, nine-classroom building with laboratories, a library, a computer room, and specialized departments for livestock, crops and forestry. The total budget of the project was 441,000 USD.

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The Global Kids Online Journal included Junior School students in collaboration with students from the Russian Federation and the USA. They created a lively website covering culture, careers, storytelling and much else.

via http://www.agakhanacademies.org/mombasa/collaborating-cyberspace
http://www.virtualclassroom.org/win12.html#.UcHUCufvtQw

From skyscrapers to vernacular architecture, from the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban to the Indonesians Rumah Asuh and Yori Antar… without a doubt the Aga Khan award for architecture offers the widest range imaginable. And on April 30 it announced its shortlist of 20 projects for this year. The current prize fund totals one million dollars and is presented to projects selected by an independent master jury. The final announcement will be made in the Autumn.

via Muslim architecture: Fit for a King – The Express Tribune.

The ECE curriculum was developed by Academy of Education in collaboration with UNICEF and Aga Khan Foundation in Tajikistan.

The Early Childhood Education (ECE) Curriculum is based on the “Early Learning Development Standards” (ELDS) developed by the Ministry of Education and UNICEF.  It also draws on the work of several early childhood theories, but heavily on the work of the High Scope Educational Research Foundation in the United States.  This approach has proven to be adaptable to various settings and responsive to different cultures while still retaining the elements of a quality early childhood curriculum.

via Tajik Ministry of education approves Early Childhood Education Curriculum | Tajikistan News-NA «Asia-Plus».

During the tour the senior citizens also got the opportunity to observe the region’s culture and to experience the hospitality of the people. The tour also provided the Senior Citizens with an opportunity to make new friends and get exposure to the  ways of living in other parts of the Gilgit-Baltistan and enjoy the experience of living with rejuvenating the nice memories.

via PAMIR TIMES | Voices of the Mountain Communities.

–snip– The lead author of the paper on interventions, Zulfiqar Bhutta, of Pakistan’s Aga Khan University, said, “We believe that these 10 nutrition-specific interventions have the potential to save lives. The cost is affordable for a world which spends close to a hundred times more than this on conflict.”

via IRIN Global | Ten ways to save a million lives | Global | Children | Food Security | Health & Nutrition | Water & Sanitation.

(L) Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University; and {R) Dr. Eboo Patel

Excerpt: Now, for the sake of ease, effectiveness and enjoyment, if we want to make the world a better place, we prefer to do it with others, rather than by ourselves. But how do we work with others when we have a different ethical code than they do?

To answer this question, I decided to take a step away from the abstract. The effort to make the world a better place, with adherents of different faiths working in tandem, is called the interfaith movement. For this article, I spoke to two figures prominent in this movement: Eboo Patel and Greg Epstein.

Dr. Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC). An Ismaili Muslim from Illinois and author of several books on interfaith engagement, Dr. Patel is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, and has a Ph.D. in the sociology of religion from Oxford.

via KidSpirit: The Ethics of the Interfaith Movement.
http://kidspiritonline.com/2013/02/the-ethics-of-the-interfaith-movement/

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I am Ruby, was born in Kampala, Uganda and lived in Nairobi, Kenya. I came to Canada in 1974.

I began my culinary education in Kenya. While still a youngster, i learned to prepare traditional and western dishes from my mother, and her grandmother who also were both exceptional cooks. A recipe book was foreign to our mothers and grandmothers. Each dish was taught down the generations until daughters became proficient like their mothers. I owe my culinary skills to my mother who is a gourmet cook and to this day loves to create in her kitchen.

These early experiences inspired me to dedicate myself to on going learning. Growing up i spent many hours in the kitchen with my mother in the family restaurant called “summer place”, frequently visited by the president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta and his cabinet ministers, , film stars such as bill trevors, jo adamson, asha parekh, and johnny mukherjee, and the elite british settlers who loved indian food. Summer palace soon became famous for its curries, masala fish and steaks.

via Calgary’s best indian food | Catering & Cooking School | Ruby’s Kitchen.

Mayor Naheed Nenshi with Youth Award winner Sheliza Kassam and Ald. Jim Stevenson.

The University of Calgary has been a Gold-level sponsor of the Calgary Awards and proud supporter of the Youth Award since 2009. This award is given to a young Calgarian whose exceptional volunteer and community achievements improved the quality of life in Calgary. This year’s winner was Sheliza Kassam, a dynamic 16-year-old who has dedicated hundreds of hours as a volunteer and on the Mayor’s Youth Council with Youth Central. Kassam is also the founder of Children’s Birthday Miracles, an international organization that provides birthday parties for less fortunate children living in Calgary and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. A dedicated humanitarian, Kassam stated, “In my eyes, philanthropy is the idea of sharing the spirit of giving by inspiring people around you to join you in this movement to change the world.”

via Tireless community leadership earns two profs Calgary Awards | News & Events | University of Calgary.

Photos paint a picture of the World Partnership Walk 2013 | Youth Are Awesome.
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Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo (centre), representing Minister Fantino at the World Partnership Walk in Kitchener, during the ribbon-cutting ceremony with other dignitaries (Catherine Fife, MPP Kitchener-Waterloo; Brenda Halloran, Mayor of Waterloo; Basheer Habib, Kitchener-Waterloo Organizing Committee; Stephen Woodworth, MP Kitchener-Centre; John Milloy MPP, Kitchener-Centre; Berry Vrbanovic, Kitchener Councillor), June 9, 2013.

World Partnership Walk in Calgary—June 9, 2013 – Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

The Hon. Alice Wong, the federal Minister of State for Seniors, announced today that CIDA will provide $4.3 million to Sustainable Clubfoot Care in Bangladesh, an effort to train health workers to perform a low-cost, non-surgical treatment that involves placing a series of casts on the ankles of babies, and to create a permanent mechanism for providing this treatment for future generations.

Project leaders Shafique Pirani, clinical professor of orthopaedics, and Richard Mathias, professor in the School of Population and Public Health, will seek to replicate their success in creating a network of 40 clubfoot clinics in Dr. Pirani’s native country of Uganda.

via UBC clubfoot treatment in Bangladesh gains $4.3M federal boost « UBC Public Affairs.

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Prince Amyn Aga Khan speaking at the opening of the Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum exhibit in Singapore on 18 July 2012. Seated right right hand corner: Dr Reshma and Mr Aziz Merchant.

18th July 2012 Prince Amyn Aga Khan together with Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim who was then the Singapore’s Minster for Information, Communications and the Arts viewing the exhibition at the Asian Civilisation Museum. In the background, Dr Reshma and Mr Aziz Merchant who were sponsors of the Aga Khan Museum exhibit in Singapore.

18th July 2012 Prince Amyn Aga Khan receiving token of appreciation for gracing the occasion from Dr Alan Chong, Director, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.

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President of the federation, Abdul Alim Barni, said: “Considering that Urdu has been granted the status of second official language, there should be an Urdu translator and typist in all departments of the Delhi government and all three municipal corporations of Delhi.”

The federation said the language had not been given enough attention in the decades since independence, thus “the recommendations of the Sachar Committee should be implemented with immediate effect in order to uplift the minorities”.

To this, Walia said, “It is not true that Urdu has been put on the back burner. The government recently increased salaries for Urdu teachers from Rs 11,000 to Rs 23,000 and we have also advertised for 100 vacancies for Urdu teachers under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.”

The minister also said the government is taking the Urdu language to the bylanes of Delhi through various measures. “We have tied up with the Agha Khan Foundation in Nizamuddin and we are teaching children the history of the place through storytelling in Urdu,” she said.

via Fill 1,700 vacant Urdu teaching posts, federation tells govt.