Walk to End Global Poverty at Orlando PartnershipsInAction Walk

ORLANDO, FLORIDA, October 30, 2011. On October 30, over 1,800 walked to end global poverty in
the annual Partnership Walk at Lake Eola Park. The Orlando Partnership Walk is an initiative of
Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A (AKF USA) to raise awareness and funds that reduce poverty,
hunger, illiteracy and poor health in Africa and Asia.

Orlando’s 2011 Walk raised over $220,000. 100% of the funds raised at Partnership Walk go
directly to projects sponsored by the Foundation; not a cent is spent on administration.

Along with a lively entertainment program celebrating the diversity of world cultures,
Partnership Walk attracted high-profile guests and civic leaders including Lawson Lamar, State
Attorney for Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida and Scott Randolph of the Florida House of
Representatives. Yvonne Coleman of Smooth Radio DJ Jazz 103, WLOQ, served as master of
ceremonies for the event. In his keynote address, Lawson Lamar acknowledged, "The
Foundation is about working on solutions that last. The approach is to invest time, skills and
knowledge into communities and come up with goals by working with the communities, which
they agree on because they are bought into process. The Foundation doesn't make them accept a
solution; it helps them find a solution. The AKF method of engaging people to be able to help
themselves, educate their children, and lift themselves out of poverty will create a situation that
builds a better future not only for those countries, not only for those families, but for us here in
the Western world.”

Read the entire press release here.