Impact in the World
History
- She has sparked a dialogue about children's education throughout the world
- She has created the Malala Fund
- She has shown us that there is no age limit to stand up against injustice
- Yousafzai opened a school in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, near the Syrian border, for Syrian refugees
- Born on July 12 1997 (Malala Day)
- Native to the Swat Valley in the northwest Pakistan
- Born onto a Sunni Muslim family of Pashtun ethnicity and named after Malalai of Maiwand from Southern Afghanistan
- She is fluent in Pashtu, English and Urdu
- Targeted and shot by the Taliban on the school bus. The shot went through her head, neck, and ended in her shoulder
Malala Yousafzai
How and why should you emulate her?
- Shot by Taliban
- Stood up for education, women's right and peace
- Pakistani Activists
- Youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate
Achievement
- 2011: International Children's Peace Prize (nominee)
- 2014: Nominee for World Children's Prize also known as Children's Nobel Prize
- One of Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World", April 2013
- • 2013: International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Malala Yousafzai Speech