When Azim Khamisa's only son, twenty year old Tariq, was murdered by a fourteen year old boy, his immediate thought, beyond reason, was that two lives had been lost. Drowning in a sea of grief, he knew he had to bring meaning back into his life if he was to truly live again. But what could he do that would somehow honor his son and contribute in the world? Founding the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, he put his energy into doing all he could to prevent other young people from meeting the fate of his son and the boy who killed him. Reaching out to Ples Felix, the grandfather who was raising his son's
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