Aga Khan Development Network programs depend heavily on volunteers, particularly in schools, health clinics and hospitals. - 1998-08-25

Volunteers

Every one of us can take part in this process by ensuring that the basic rights of man are also the basic rights of women. - 1998-04-05

Entrepreneurial activity provides income, income provides security, and when necessary, independence - 1998-04-05

The female contribution to the economy could also have an enormous impact if women were encouraged to achieve the full scope of their potential productivity. - 1998-04-05

A society whose women are educated is a dignified society and one to be proud of - 1998-04-05

A society which fails to educate its women and which hampers their development, is ultimately wasting fifty percent of its most precious resource - 1998-04-05

I've always been amazed that the women who endure the most adverse conditions, in this world, very seldom ask for help - 1998-04-05

This year is the UN International Year of Forests. It should remind us of the importance of forests in our lives. - October 19th, 2011

Deforestation is one of the great challenges of our times. Scientists estimate about half of all the forests that once covered the Earth are gone - October 19th, 2011