Frank o dea biography for kids

Canadian businessman

Francis O’Dea, OC (born 1945 in Montreal) is a Canadian entrepreneur, humanitarian and author. He left a lifestyle of homeless panhandling and in 1975 co-founded the Second Cup chain of coffee stores with Tom Culligan.^[1]

He is the chair of the Bauen Group of Companies and of CUSO International Cuso International.^{[citation needed]}

He was involved with the founding of Proshred Holdings Ltd, an international document destruction service (1986), and Samaritan Air Service, a regional air ambulance service (1989).^{[citation needed]}

O'Dea became founding president of Renascent Treatment Foundation, (1983), founded Street Kids International (1988), and the Canadian Landmine Foundation (1999).,^[2] he initiated the international charity, Night of a Thousand Dinners (2000), with Colin Powell, Sir Paul McCartney, and Kofi Annan, which resulted in 11,000 people sitting down to fundraising dinners in 29 countrie