Malala Yousafzai
Global Ambassador for Girls' Access to Education, Youngest Nobel Laureate, Co-Founder of Malala Fund
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
If Malala Yousafzai has anything to do with it every girl in the world will have the opportunity to learn and lead. Her immediate focus is providing access to 130 million girls who have been denied the right to education. Through the work of the Malala Fund, co-founded with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, this seemingly audacious goal is, in Malala's words, a matter of "ambition and intention." What to do is then easy.
There are not many young women who have survived an assassination attempt, or become the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate, or opened the largest library in Europe declaring "pens and books are the weapons that will defeat terrorism." Even with these accomplishments, Malala does not consider herself extraordinary. That is "simply Malala," as she would describe herself.
Malala recently completed her degree in philosophy, politics, and economics three-year at Oxford University.
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Global Ambassador for Girls' Access to Education, Youngest Nobel Laureate, Co-Founder of Malala Fund
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
If Malala Yousafzai has anything to do with it every girl in the world will have the opportunity to learn and lead. Her immediate focus is providing access to 130 million girls who have been denied the right to education. Through the work of the Malala Fund, co-founded with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, this seemingly audacious goal is, in Malala's words, a matter of "ambition and intention." What to do is then easy.
There are not many young women who have survived an assassination attempt, or become the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate, or opened the largest library in Europe declaring "pens and books are the weapons that will defeat terrorism." Even with these accomplishments, Malala does not consider herself extraordinary. That is "simply Malala," as she would describe herself.
Malala recently completed her degree in philosophy, politics, and economics three-year at Oxford University.
Malala Yousafzai
Global Ambassador for Girls' Access to Education, Youngest Nobel Laureate, Co-Founder of Malala Fund
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
If Malala Yousafzai has anything to do with it every girl in the world will have the opportunity to learn and lead. Her immediate focus is providing access to 130 million girls who have been denied the right to education. Through the work of the Malala Fund, co-founded with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, this seemingly audacious goal is, in Malala's words, a matter of "ambition and intention." What to do is then easy.
There are not many young women who have survived an assassination attempt, or become the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate, or opened the largest library in Europe declaring "pens and books are the weapons that will defeat terrorism." Even with these accomplishments, Malala does not consider herself extraordinary. That is "simply Malala," as she would describe herself.
Malala recently completed her degree in philosophy, politics, and economics three-year at Oxford University.
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Global Ambassador for Girls' Access to Education, Youngest Nobel Laureate, Co-Founder of Malala Fund
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
If Malala Yousafzai has anything to do with it every girl in the world will have the opportunity to learn and lead. Her immediate focus is providing access to 130 million girls who have been denied the right to education. Through the work of the Malala Fund, co-founded with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, this seemingly audacious goal is, in Malala's words, a matter of "ambition and intention." What to do is then easy.
There are not many young women who have survived an assassination attempt, or become the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate, or opened the largest library in Europe declaring "pens and books are the weapons that will defeat terrorism." Even with these accomplishments, Malala does not consider herself extraordinary. That is "simply Malala," as she would describe herself.
Malala recently completed her degree in philosophy, politics, and economics three-year at Oxford University.
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