New AKF-USA Project Gives Egyptian Youth a Head Start! for Jobs

The Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance and the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA), together with AKF Egypt and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, have joined to help Egypt face these challenges with a new program called Head Start! for Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. This $3.89 million grant marks AKF USA’s first U.S. government funding for programs in Egypt.

Starting in November 2011, Head Start! will improve youths’ access to vocational training and help them start their own small businesses. Serving young men and women equally in low-income neighborhoods where the Aga Khan Development Network has been active for years, the project will identify a first set of youth applicants early in 2012.
 

A new program will help young Egyptians get vocational training and start their own businesses. Read more about Head Start!