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Last summer ODN sent 20 undergraduates from various colleges to America's impoverished Appalachia region where they worked for public service groups. Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grassroots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The summer internship program was aimed at getting students out of offices and into the field, according to Shubham Chaudhuri '87-'88, a member of the organization...
...September five students flew to Bangladesh, where they are spending six months visiting development groups around the capital city of Dacca. The program, which includes four Harvard undergraduates, is supported by ODN. And this past month, six more students left for Tamil Nadu, a province in southern India, to help with local projects organized by two Indian development agencies...
Most of the Harvard students involved in ODN have traveled to the Third World or are interested pursuing careers in development. "They have a genuine desire to help other people," says C. Peter Timmer, the John D. Black professor of Business and Government and a member of ODN's Board of Directors. "Most want to learn about other countries and about the problems of poverty...
During its first year, ODN was largely the domain of a few. The Network expanded through personal contacts made by the Ahmad brothers at such campuses as Brown, Berkeley, Mt. Holyoke, and Wellesley. A development conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in April, 1984, attracted students from across the nation, many of whom then went home and founded their own chapters of ODN. By the end of the spring of 1984, ODN had 15 campus branches...
Although the initial growth of the organization was largely a result of Kamal Ahmad's work, Timmer says he feels that ODN has transcended the efforts of a single person and will continue to grow after its founder graduates. "ODN used to be made up only of Kamal's friends at different universities," says Timmer. "I think now we have institutionalized the process and ODN is much stronger...