After hearing anti-Semitic rhetoric at school he decided to develop a friendship program to bridge the divide between the city’s Muslim and Jewish community. He introduced Holocaust education to his grade 6 students and engaged in a penpal exchange with the city’s only private Jewish school. After 5 years the program is still going strong, the two schools get together regularly to take part in team building exercises and to work together on projects of good deeds. The students now see themselves as role models for others to look up when it comes to tolerance and good citizenship. Video 1 | Video 2