Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attempting to increase American students awareness and involvement in development issues on a broader scale, Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network...
...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...
...recognition of his development work, Kamal Ahmad was one of five recipients of the 1984 United Nations Peace Medal, given in honor of Paul G. Hoffman, the founder of the United Nations Development Program...
...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...
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...