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Muslim Population: Afrah Kashmer and Student Body

muslim population: Afrah Kashmer, chair of the school's parent-teacher group, said the multicultural event took four months of planning, according to CBC. Even staff didn't realize how diverse the student body was until they started organizing the event, she said. On Saturday, the school invited the public to celebrate its diversity with food, music, games, crafts, displays of traditional clothing and henna skin designs. Little mosques on the ocean Halifax welcomes a growing Muslim population The event teaches children that diversity is always enriching, Kashmer said. Their level of awareness about the world will rise and they'll have a more successful future, she said. She said students who mingle with people who are Christian, who are Jew, who are Hindu, with different cultures they will learn something different. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.