From yorkregion.com
By Kim Zarzour
At 12, the future is an open book: you can do anything, be anything – actor, doctor, astronaut or NHL player.
Tariq Haji is that promising age, and his dream for the future is very clear.
Some day, he hopes to be elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament. And the first thing he’ll do? Enact a bill requiring all schools to have elevators for students in wheelchairs. So it’s not your average pre-teen’s dream. This Thornhill boy isn’t exactly what you’d call average.
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In the fall he put together a three-page letter that sounds like a resume for someone much older. It includes a long list of accomplishments from award-winning Spelling Bee performances, to volleyball, basketball, cross-country, relay, and track-and-field, soccer, ice hockey, tennis, table tennis, golf and swimming. He’s in the school’s advanced math program, a volunteer in the Aga Khan Ismaili Volunteer Corps, tutors fellow students and participates in the World Partnership Walk to eliminate global poverty.
Read at the source: http://www.yorkregion.com/article/89233
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