Kamal Ahmad started the Asian University for Women to increase levels of higher education in poor countries.
(Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)
The education of Kamal Ahmad
Kamal Ahmad started the Asian University for Women to increase levels of higher education in poor countries.
(Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)
The first time Kamal Ahmad started a school he was a 14-year-old boy in his native Bangladesh, the son of a university biochemist and a writer, living on a campus where children worked as household servants and couldn't read. So Ahmad organized classes for them in garages left empty by day. (Full article: 1368 words)
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