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In rural Jamaica where Roy Streete grew up, there was neither running water nor electricity. That doesn't mean his was a poverty-stricken life, he is quick to point out. Still, "seeing so many people in need made me want to give back," says Streete, a dentist and founder and CEO of Organization for International Development in the Bronx, N.Y.
After completing high school in Jamaica, Streete joined his parents in New York. With dreams of becoming a dentist, he enrolled at Hostos Community College in the Bronx, then transferred to Lehman College, where he earned a bachelor's...