New Delhi, Aug 19 (ANI): The Aga Khan Foundation and Aga Khan Development Network (AGDN) have been working in Afghanistan for nearly two decades now.
Talking exclusively to ANI, Dr. Matt Reed, CEO, Agha Khan Foundation, India said, “India’s contribution to Afghanistan’s development through the AGDN have been substantial. We have a substantial number of Indians that have worked for us in Afghanistan, bringing their knowledge from whole variety of sectors, ranging from world development health care, education, financial services, mobile telephony and other sectors”.
The engagement started in 1995, during Afghanistan’s civil war. The foundation had distributed aide from Tajikistan through AKDN’s affiliate.
Today it has channeled roughly about $700 million of assistance to Afghanistan and has benefited more than 2.5 million people.
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