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Traveling at an early age with his father, a nutritionist, around their native country of Bangladesh, Kamal Ahmad, ODN's co-founder, first became interested in the problems of the poor. "Growing up in Bangladesh is an education in development," he says. "It is a country always in crisis...
...Headlines only capture a very small part of the reality. There is an ongoing emergency situation that people should know about," says Nazir Ahmad, a doctoral student at the Food Research Institute of Stanford. "Through ODN, a generation of college students are encouraged to take these problems into consideration...
Ahmad's official involvement with ODN ended last year. He currently works with a variety of development agencies from Boston to India on Third World grassroots community projects. He spent the 1985-86 school year on a University funded fact finding tour of local development groups in Africa and Asia...
...Kamal notices need and gets up and does something about it. He's mobilized people into action on behalf of others, and that's remarkable," says Robert Coles '50, Professor of Psychiatry and president of ODN's board of directors. "Kamal has what Tolstoy calls a great soul...
Sponsored by the Overseas Development Network (ODN)--a student-run organization devoted to development efforts with chapters on more than 40 campuses nation wide--Bike-Aid includes riders from colleges all over the country. About 75 riders participated in last summer's trip which raised a total of $132,000 for ODN projects...