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...Ahmad says the community resistance increased his enthusiasm for the project. "If nobody had opposed me, I probably would have lost interest," he says. Classes had to be moved to an open field where they were conducted for several months...
...raise money for his school, Ahmad targeted various overseas organizations from Canada to Italy. He raised enough money to build a bamboo schoolhouse, where the school still runs today...
When he arrived as a sophomore at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Ahmad says he was shocked to find a "very low level of knowledge about the Third World in this country." He began Exeter's Third World Society to promote awareness of development issues among students...
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...