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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...
...Bangladesh said it didn't have government and couldn't afford one. Ferdinand Marcos offered to help but said he wanted money in advance; I didn't think he could deliver the goods. Canada said it wouldn't do anything the U.S. didn't do first...
...frequently marked by failure, frustration and danger. Two weeks ago, ten members of a medical team from the Paris-based Doctors Without Borders were abducted by armed men from a Somalian refugee camp. In Africa, civil warfare blocks relief shipments to areas where hundreds of thousands are starving. In Bangladesh, 15 years of foreign assistance has made little measurable improvement in people's lives. Everywhere stories are told and retold of corrupt government officials who rip off assistance before it reaches the needy and of wasteful projects and high living by aid workers amid dismal poverty...
...mile journey would have tired even the most zealous globetrotter, so it was understandable if Pope John Paul II appeared just a trifle fatigued during his seven-day visit to Australia last week. Arriving directly from a six-day tour of Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji and New Zealand, the peripatetic Pontiff marked his first visit to the island continent with a blitz that , included stops in the capital, Canberra, the state capitals of Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and the outlying -- very outlying -- city of Darwin and town of Alice Springs. Despite the hectic pace, his Holiness was never...