Selina Shivji, South Surrey student honoured as ‘Caring Canadian’

by Tracy Holmes – Peace Arch News
Posted Oct 22, 2015 at 12:00 PM

To say Selina Shivji is involved in her community – at school and beyond – would be an understatement.

“Even if I got reincarnated 20 times, I wouldn’t be able to accomplish this much,” Semiahmoo Secondary principal Claudine Bunyan said of the Grade 12 student, as she scanned Shivji’s resumé.

“This girl is incredible.”

Shivji’s efforts – which range from student council chair at Semi and serving as a youth congressional leader with the Aga Khan Foundation, to MCing school assemblies and founding an organization to support children on the horn of Africa – were recognized Tuesday evening with a Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award.

Presented by Free the Children’s Craig Keilburger, the award recognizes “the unsung heroes who volunteer their time, their efforts and a great deal of their lives to helping others, and who ask for noting in return.”

“There’s not a single bone in her body that is self-serving.”

Shivji’s mother said Semi’s administrators and teachers also deserve credit for her daughter’s outlook and achievements.

“They instill the ethics of making a positive difference; totally in-sync with our family and faith ethos,” Shahnaz Shivji said by email.

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