Olav Hodne was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 humanitarian and missionary. In 1972, he became the founder and director of RDRS Bangladesh, an organization to created in order to give aid to the rural poor in northern Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

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He was awarded the Wittenberg Award in 2005 by the Luther Institute for his outstanding service to church and society. He was the grandfather of Joshua French

Joshua French

Joshua Olav Daniel Hodne French is a Norwegian- and British security contractor arrested in May 2009 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and convicted of murdering his driver by gunshot and of espionage for Norway...

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