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Week commencing Thursday, 9 October | 2014 | Edition 753
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A humble but awe-inspiring leader, role model and mentor to many, he continues for up to nine months every year in Bangladesh, directing projects that touch the lives of countless people before returning home to drum up more support. In explaining his continued drive, Mr Hyde, who operated an engineering business in the Rose City before retiring, said there was always something more to be done. “Bangladesh is vastly different to Australia,” he said. “Bangladesh is rated one of the poorest countries in the world and where I work is rated as one of the
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Warwick's Fred Hyde, AM, has been short-listed for the 2015 Queensland Senior Australian of the Year Award for his tireless work building schools in impoverished Bangladesh.
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WHILE most people slow down when they retire, 94-year-old Fred Hyde has devoted the last three decades and all of his resources - personal, physical and financial - to rescuing and educating abandoned children in Bangladesh. The World War II veteran, who hails from Warwick, has spent his life working hard to help others and earlier this week, the Member of the Order of Australia recipient was given another nod, being announced as one of four Queensland finalists for the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year Award. The modest philanthropist told the Free Times it was “a great honour” to be nominated, but said he did not rate his chances of success. “My work is mainly done outside Australia and possibly someone who is doing something in Australia for Australians will win the award,” he said. “They will need to be here to attend functions during the year and from next month on I will be in Bangladesh.” After seeing the plight of children left orphaned after a tidal wave on Bhola Island in 1970, Mr Hyde sold his house and poured all his savings into his not-for-profit organisation, Co-operation in Development. Since 1991, he has built 45 schools, five kindergartens and teacher training facilities for 165 teachers and, at present, there are 12,000 children attending Co-operation in Development schools.
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