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The Silk Road: A Living History – exhibition
Outdoor exhibition in London's King's Cross documenting photographer Christopher Wilton-Steer’s 40,000km journey along the world’s oldest trade route
‘People need help now, they can’t wait’: Land, Water and Borders along the Silk Road
In 2019, AKF's Nick McGrath travelled to the Uzbek-Tajik-Kyrgyz border regions to find out how AKDN is working to help ease tensions over resources
Creating Early Childhood Development champions: targeting government policymakers to scale ‘Nurturing Care’
AKDN’s recently developed workshop aims to influence systems-change for ECD
The transformative power of parents: AKF launches two new courses to underscore the vital role that parents play in child development
AKF’s Global Lead for Early Childhood Development, Sweta Shah, explains the rationale behind the courses' development
Keeping children safe, stimulated and building their skills during lockdown
How one Ugandan nursery used Human-Centred Design, supported by the Schools2030 programme, to solve a community problem
Women’s employment critical to young children’s well-being: International Women’s Day 2021
This International Women's Day, AKF's Global Lead for Early Childhood Development, Sweta Shah, explains how supporting women is crucial to child development and why AKF is piloting the ‘Happy Child’ Initiative in the Kyrgyz Republic
Cooperation and compassion during COVID-19: how civil society must pave the road to recovery – Matt Reed’s latest blog
Matt Reed, Global Director of Institutional Partnerships at AKF and CEO at AKF (UK)
AKDN and EU sign new €9m partnership to combat COVID-19 in East Africa, reaching 140,000 vulnerable people
The agencies involved will tackle the pandemic’s health challenges, as well as increase support for the wellbeing of communities and young people
A bumper harvest in Tajikistan’s Zarafshon valley: Tabassum’s story
