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By Jenny Chen The summer before 9th grade, Celia Islam went back to visit her grandparents in Bangladesh, like she always did. Except that this time, the town she was visiting, Sirajgang, had just been ravaged by an awful flood: houses were destroyed, schools were demolished, and children were displaced. “It looked completely different,” Islam said. Islam, now a graduating …

On May 14th 2013, the McDonald’s Family Restaurants of Greater Washington, D.C. presented the McDonald’s Educates Scholarship to 60 outstanding local students, totaling nearly $105,000.  Eliza Adhikari, Jae Wook Choi, Rafa Chowdhury, Megan Huynh, Shahzeb Khan, GyeongMin Lee, Do Yeon Park, Ana Gloribel Pereira, Yasamin Rahmani, and Khanh Vo were among the recipients. These students all demonstrated dedication to volunteerism, …