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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...
...Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh, Ahmad grew increasingly concerned about the many illiterate children who lived in the city's slums and worked as domestics for wealthy families. At the age of 14, he started a school to teach these children to read, converting several vacant car garages into classrooms, hiring six university students as teachers and enrolling 200 students...
...Ahmad's school received intense opposition immediately after opening in March, 1979. The families who employed the children were reluctant to have their young workers waste time in school, he says, and local authorities charged that the students made too much noise and were a health risk to the area...
Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khomeini, 42. Khomeini's son Ahmad, chief of staff for the Iranian leader, is a skillful behind-the-scenes power broker. He wields great influence by controlling who sees his father, and officials curry his favor. Ahmad Khomeini has no formal position in the government nor any well-defined set of followers, but his prestige as the son of the charismatic sage could take...
...ironic that terrorists brought Ahmad to his death because "he was a supporter of all kinds of people," said the friend, Gazala Sabiq. "Like if someone went on a shooting spree, he would have said, 'Well, maybe society failed them,''' according to Sabiq, who said she knew Ahmad for 11 years...