Pickering’s Yusuf Hirji had a zest for life, despite cancer diagnosis

Pickering’s Yusuf Hirji had a zest for life, despite cancer diagnosisIn Yusuf Hirji’s 19 years, he touched more people than most do in a lifetime.

Thousands recently honoured the Pickering teenager’s life, days after he died of cancer on April 9.

“It was just so heartwarming to see,” says his mother, Shyrin Hirji.

At 16, Yusuf was a Pine Ridge Secondary School student with serious soccer ambitions when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, the bone cancer Terry Fox had.

Click here to read more at the source: Kristen Calis, April 29, 2016, durhamregion.com

 

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