This intervention-based research by AKU’s Institute for Educational Development, Pakistan provides insights on how non-formal basic education could provide out-of-school children a way back into the mainstream schooling system.

While the first projects of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) in the Hunza Valley of Pakistan focused on “the physical, social, cultural and economic revitalisation of communities in the developing world”, restoration of the Shigar Fort/Palace and its conversion into a hotel represented a pioneering approach.