Growing up in Tanzania four decades ago, Nadya Rahim’s classmates would walk two hours from their rural villages in East Africa just to attend school.
“All they had money for was, really, sugar and tea,” she recalled. “(They) were very, very bright, but they just didn’t have the opportunity to get the education.”
But on Sunday, the co-founder of the World Partnership Walk was among the thousands of people who slipped on their sneakers at Stanley Park and raised about $2 million for the Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s fight against global poverty.
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