When Somaya Amiri was a little girl, she’d watch each morning as her big brother hoisted a backpack over his shoulders and walked to school in Afghanistan’s Behsood District. She remembers desperately wanting to go too. The day she decided to follow him, her father...
Sir Charles Tupper secondary student Somaya Amiri has accomplished something only 30 Canadian teens this year can boast. She’s been named a Loran Scholar and will receive up to $100,000 over four years to attend university. Just over three years ago, Amiri couldn’t...