Kensington and Area Refugee Sponsorship Initiative raising $60K
Issack Aden says he owes his life to his older sister. Now, he's hoping to repay that debt, by bringing her family to Canada with help from local volunteers on P.E.I.

"I want to try to pay back what she did," said Aden.

Aden's parents were killed in civil war in Somalia 30 years ago. He and his orphaned siblings fled to a refugee camp in Kenya. His older sister, Muslima Hassam, just 12 at the time, quit school to help raise Aden and his younger brother. Aden came to Prince Edward Island in 2011.

Muslima, her husband and children remain to this day in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp.
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