When I asked John Wood, founder and board chair of Room to Read, an international nonprofit organization focused on literacy and gender equality in education in Asia and Africa, about Khan, he said he was actually meeting with him this week.

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Childspring International, an Atlanta-based Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing sick children from the developing world to the United States for medical care, offered assistance in bringing Noor and her family to Atlanta for treatment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

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