Malala

Malala

Malala's story

Malala was born on 12 july 1997, in Mingora. She was named Malala, after Malalai the famous Pasthun Heroine.

Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai is a poet, and runs a public school. He is a leading educational advocate himself. In 2009, Malala began writing an anonymous blog for the BBC expressing her views on education and life under the threat of the Taliban taking over her valley.

 In 2011, she received Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize and she was nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children’s Peace Prize. Her increased profile and strident criticism of the Taliban caused Taliban leaders to meet, and in 2012, they voted to kill her.

Malala became a global advocate for the millions of girls being denied a formal education because of social, economic, legal and political factors.

She started the Malala Fund to bring awareness to the social and economic impact of girls’ education and to empower girls to raise their voices, to unlock their potential, and to demand change.

Malala is an exemplary woman, she is a role model today. Malala her struggle for goals and and helps other girls to get an education.