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Canadian newspaper readers adopt Afghan girl
17-year-old Roya Shams won the heart of thousands of Canadians after The Toronto Star newspaper first told her story in 2010, and then chronicled its efforts to help her pursue her studies, first in Afghanistan and now in Canada. We speak with the Star's Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Paul Watson who escorted Roya out of Kandahar last month and arranged for her to attend Ottawa's Ashbury College. Roya Shams is now getting the education she needs to take up her assassinated father's torch and fulfil his, and now her, dream of bringing democracy to Afghanistan.
- http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1117873--afghan-girl-arrives-in-canada-to-attend-school
- http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1119045--afghan-teen-roya-shams-whose-father-was-killed-by-the-taliban-writes-about-her-first-days-in-canada
- http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1117882--how-to-donate-to-the-roya-fund
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