OLIVIA STREN – From Monday’s Globe and Mail – May 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM EDT
Bilaal Rajan can’t meet tomorrow, his mother, Shamim Rajan explains, as he has a previous engagement: He has to go to the zoo. He can, however, squeeze in a late dinner interview at his favourite Toronto restaurant, Richtree Market. (He loves the potato rosti and schnitzel.) Just prior to our rendezvous, Bilaal’s assistant sends me a list of suggested talking points. Apart from the fact that Bilaal has braces, arrives to the interview with his mother and an exchange-student friend, Sam, and manages to consume an Everest-worth of rosti with the appetite and velocity of, well, a 12-year-old boy, I might as well be meeting an elected official.
Bilaal, who cites Gandhi and the Aga Khan as his heroes, is an activist, Unicef children’s ambassador and motivational speaker. He has raised funds of nearly $5-million for causes that range from the victims of hurricane-ravaged Haiti to HIV/AIDS orphans.
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