Waheed Madad Khan Receives M. Welter World Citizen Award

Waheed Madad Khan is one of 22 students nominated and will now receive a $500 Mark M. Welter World Citizen Award for the 2020 spring semester.

The purpose of the Mark M. Welter World Citizen Award is to provide a tribute to Minnesota State students who most exemplify the thoughts, words and actions demanded by a 21st century world citizen.

Kahn has demonstrated some of the outstanding qualities that Welter looked for and encouraged through his financial support including:

• All people are of a common species who share a common adventure in a common home.
• The world shares common problems (pollution, terrorism, challenges) but views them through differing cultural and religious value perspectives.
• All citizens of planet Earth mutually share an interconnected, fragile biosphere.
• All people, all cultures, all creeds, all colors, and all countries-have been “depositors and with drawers at the world bank of knowledge.”
• Our world is increasingly, inexorably, and undeniably interdependent.
• No one nation, people, religion, or creed can unilaterally deal with contemporary challenges of pollution, population, poverty, pandemics, and peace.

"Living in two different countries slapped across opposite sides of the world, you come to the realization of how little you know and how much larger the grey areas are."