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‘If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress’.
The Aga Khan addressing the Tutzing Evangelical Academy, in Germany, upon receiving the Tolerance Award, May 20, 2006
Hope and respect for human dignity are the underlying themes in all the work of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). The network brings together a group of international, private, non-denominational development agencies and institutions that seek to empower communities and individuals by focusing on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development. Their combined mandate is to improve living conditions and opportunities, and to help relieve society of the burdens of ignorance, disease, and deprivation.
AKDN often works in most difficult and marginalised places. It is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender.
The impulses that underpin the Network are the Muslim ethic of compassion for the vulnerable in society and the duty, guided by the ethics of the Islam, to contribute to improving the quality of all human life. The pivotal notion in the ethical ideal of Islam is human dignity, and thus, the duty to respect and support God’s greatest creation, Man himself.
For information please visit: http://www.akdn.org/
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