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Just four years after Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network (ODN), the group has chapters at 40 colleges and more than 600 student volunteers. ODN has raised over $300,000 to sponsor, among other things, internship programs in Appalachia, India and Bangladesh...
Grassroots projects in Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Colombia, India, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Nicaragua and Sri Lanka are among the many funded by ODN's various chapters. An ODN branch at Yale University sponsored a cooperative bakery in Tangwena, Zimbabwe and one at the University of Utah helped finance construction of a well in a small Bolivian town. During the past three years, ODN has sponsored a total of 15 such programs...
...ODN efforts at educating students about Third World problems include lectures and film series and a computer database that catalogues information about development groups around the world...
Scores of students from across the nation are expected to come to Harvard in April for a three day ODN-sponsored conference entitled "The Dilemmas of Development." Guest speakers will include S. Shahid Husain, vice-president for operation policy at the World Bank, Stephen Lewis, Canadian representative to the United Nations, and John Hammock, executive director of OXFAM-America...
...raise funds as well as stimulate national awareness, 69 bikers participated in the "Bike Aid: Pedaling for Progress '86," organized by ODN. Through their efforts, the students, who stopped to do community work at cities across America, raised...