AMY SMART / TIMES COLONIST: Vancouver Island’s international school community is mourning the death of Roshan Thomas, who was screening potential students in Afghanistan when she was shot and killed along with eight others on Thursday.
The optometrist was a champion of education who worked hard to bring students to Metchosin’s Pearson College — the same school her own children attended — as well as other United World College campuses. She also founded a school for Afghan children in Kabul, after providing eye care at Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan.
“It’s gut-wrenchingly sad,” said David Hawley, Pearson’s head of college. “She was incredibly warm and curious and giving. Totally selfless.”
The Thomas family’s connection with Pearson College began when Roshan and her husband Roger’s eldest son, Karim, was admitted in 1996 — the same year Pearson admitted two Afghan students for the first time.
Their daughter, Samira, followed, graduating in 2003. Their youngest daughter, Rishma, attended another United World College in Wales.
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