It’s how the Aga Khan Development Network does things: it finds the win-win.
BRIAN IBSEN, who holds degrees from Yale and Harvard, is now Chief North American Development Officer for the Aga Khan University. He was formerly the development chief for science and engineering at the University of Chicago. In his few spare hours, he is also a poet.
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Our group of six has come to visit the site of the new, unbuilt campus of the Aga Khan University. We are, in a sense, its vanguard. The 3200-acre site is west of the city of Arusha, adjacent the road to Tanzania’s new inland capital, Dodoma. On the way, we pass Mt. Meru, a dormant volcano taller than any mountain in Europe or the continental U.S. Though Kilimanjaro itself was hidden in cloud, Meru’s lower slopes are right in front of us, sloping up at almost 20% on one side and over 30% on the other. It’s right out of a geology textbook.
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But now there is also a fence, eight feet high. It marks a difference in the color of the grasses within the University’s land and beyond it. Officially, there are no fences in Tanzania, a socialist state for almost 40 years after gaining independence in 1961. And the Masai, as pastoralists, oppose fences for reasons more cultural than ideological. So a deal was made. We cut the grass on our side, bundle it, and toss it over the fence for the Masai. It’s how the Aga Khan Development Network does things: it finds the win-win.
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Ismailimail 
The model shown in the article is of the FAS Karachi campus, not Arusha
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