Malala The Girl Who Stood Up For Education

Malala Yousafzai was born July 12th, 1997 in the Swat district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where she lived until 2012. She was mainly educated by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who was an education activist also and permitted her to talk about education and politics with others. She began speaking about education rights in 2008 and by 2009 she was a peer educator in the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's Open Minds Pakistan youth program. On October 11th, 2012, a taliban gunman shot her on a bus as she rode home for school because the taliban felt as if they had no other option because she was now a public figure. Luckily, she lived and her and her family were moved to live in Birmingham, England.

Malala received the Nobel Peace Prize, being the youngest ever to have, on October 10th, 2014. Her continued work in activism for women’s rights and education has lead her to start a nonprofit organization called the Malala Fund from which she sends any money she received to those around the world in need of education. Her autobiography: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban tells about her story and how education is pivotal for anyone and everyone.

Mala has a passion for women’s rights to an education, especially in the middle east and because she has lived through the oppression of the Taliban, she is able to tell what it really is like. The first quote is about women taking it into their own hands to change education. They don’t need men to empower them to change the world and because in the past they have already tried with men standing up for them and little has changed. She wants women to be in charge of their lives, their own education and that starts by them being the ones to stand up and speak about