IBO ISLAND (Mozambique) March 17: “Women, even in the most under-resourced comers of Africa, are finding ways of leading their communities out of economic and social marginalisation.”

Amidst the decaying ruins of an abandoned offshore trading post off the coast of northern Mozambique, Princess Zahra Aga Khan on Monday underlined the determination of disadvantaged littoral communities and their womenfolk.

Princess Zahra, the eldest daughter of the Aga Khan, was reviewing a series of beginnings to development initiatives launched by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

On Sunday, Princess Zahra met Mozambique’s Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi and Education Minister Alcido Eduardo Nguenha and visited a 23-hectare site in the city of Matola on which the Aga Khan Education Services will build a “centre of excellence.”