MALALA YOUSAFZAI

‘ ONE CHILD, ONE TEACHER, ONE PEN AND ONE BOOK CAN CHANGE THE WORLD’

Malala Yousafzai became the youngest to receive Nobel Prize Laureate. She is well-known for human right advocacy and education for women and children especially and at a very young age where most of the teenagers at her stage now are stuck in many kind of social problem.

Unfortunately, she was injured on 2012 when a gunman shot her. She remained unconscious and in critical condition. But soon after that, she recovered. The injuries never stop her to be an activist of education. The injuries made her stronger when she wrote a blog about her life during the reign of Taliban. Soon after that, her chance to reach the freedom become more brighter. There was documentary about her life where people started to know her. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television and she was nominated for the international Children’s Peace Prize and became the most famous teenager in the world.

She founded the Malala Fund ,a non-profit organisation and on 2013, she released a book, I am Malala, an international bestseller. At the age of 17, she was announced to be the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle of children and young people and for the right of all children in education and became the youngest ever to receive that honour.

She was born on 12 july 1997 and due to the financial problem in her family to support hospital birth, she was born at home. She lived with her parents and two brothers in Mingora. Her father is a poet and educational activist. When she was a child, she wanted to be a doctor, but her father encouraged her to become a politician.

“ I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopter and Taliban. I had such dreams since the launch of military operation in SWAT. My mother made me breakfast and I went to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban has issued an edict banning all girls from attending school. Only 11 out of 27 attending the class because the number decreased because of the Taliban’s edict. My three friends have shifted to Peshawar ,Lahore and Rawalpindi with their families after this edict “

Malala yousafzai, 3 January 2009 BBC blog entry

“ I have a new dream, I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crisis in our country. I want to remove this crisis “

Malala Yousafzai, Class Dismissed (documentary)

sources : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

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