“An investment made in the earliest preschool years” - Mombasa, Kenya, 14 August 2007

The Madrasa Early Childhood Programme is a partnership between the Aga Khan Foundation and local Muslim organisations, through which over 200 preschools have been established in communities in East Africa. His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV discussed the importance of early childhood development, a period in which the human brain develops most quickly, in this speech at the 25th anniversary of the Madrasa programme, made in Mombasa, Kenya on 14 August 2007. Click here to read the speech.