Word: kamal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Kamal is somehow able to evoke what is best in people, to touch a vision in them," says Mary DeVault, an Exeter professor and faculty advisor for the school's Third World Society. "In working with Kamal," she adds, "I've always felt that I had the extraordinary good luck of working with a young Gandhi...
Attempting to increase American students awareness and involvement in development issues on a broader scale, Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network...
...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...
...need for an organization like the H-R Society of Lebanese Affairs to promote better understanding of Lebanon and to show the members of the Harvard community the strength of the Lebanese-American historical ties of friendship and commitment to the values of democracy and freedom around the world. Kamal S. Shehadi '86 President, H-R Society for Lebanese Affairs