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Malala
- 1. Malala Yousafzai The girl who stood up for education
- 2. Who is Malala? Malala is an 18 years old pakistani girl who is now living in Birmingham, England. Malala was born on 12 July 1997 in Mingora, Swat Valley, a town in the north-west of Pakistan. Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai named her Malala after Malalai, a Pashtun heroine.
- 3. Why is Malala famous? Malala is famous becuse of her courage to make girls in Swat Valley educated under the Taliban's rule. Her fight against the Taliban leaded her to her fame after when the Taliban gunmen shot her. She says,“I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I am afraid of no one.”
- 4. Malala Yousafzai's Background Malala wasn't rich until her fame, she was just a normal school girl but the one of the most talented in her school. Malala started living in Birmingham after Pakistan in 2012 with her mother, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai and her two younger brothers, Khushal (14 years) and Atal (9 years). Ziauddin, who has always loved learning, ran a school in Swat District named “Khushal Public School” for girls. He is known as an advocate for education in Pakistan and an outspoken opponent of Taliban efforts to restrict education and stop girls from going to school.
- 5. Becoming an Education Activist Malala shared her father’s passion for learning and love of going to school. In 2009, at the age of 12, as the Taliban’s military hold on Swat intensified, Malala began writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym named “Gul Makai”, about the life she and others had under the Taliban rule. Ziauddin's school had to shut down because that school was for girls. Under that time Malala gave a speech on “How dare Taliban take my basic rights to education.” The time Malala continued to speak against the Taliban, she and her father received death threats but even though they continued to speak out for the right to education. Around this time, Malala was featured in a documentary made for The New York Times and was revealed as the author of the BBC blog.
- 6. National Youth peace Price Award In 2011, at the age of 14, she received Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and was nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children's Peace Prize. In response to her rising popularity and national recognition, Taliban leaders voted to kill her.
- 7. Who are Taliban? Taliban is a group of terrorists who kill and destroy homes of innocent people. They even force young girls to be married as quick as they can. They have made strict rules for the girls(10 years+) that they must not be educated, talk to a male until or unless he relates the women or is married to her, do makeup, work outside and travel anywhere without a male relative, they are also strictly said that they must wear “burqa.” They have control on 90% of Afghanistan and the northwest of Pakistan.
- 8. Attack on Malala On 9 October 2012, as Malala and her friends were travelling home from school on a school bus, a masked gunman entered their school bus and shouted "Which one of you is Malala? Speak up, otherwise I will shoot you all",and, on her being identified, the gunmen shot her. She was shot with a single bullet which went through her head, neck and shoulder. She was quickly taken to the hospital of Peshawar from Swat Valley. Malala survived the initial attack, but was in a critical condition. So she was moved to Birmingham in the United Kingdom for treatment at the hospital that specialises in military injuries. She was not discharged until January, 2013 by which time she had been joined by her family in the UK. The time she cured from all injuries she began living in Birmingham with her family because Taliban wouldn't leave her alive in Pakistan if she moves back. “The Taliban's attempt to kill Malala” received worldwide condemnation and led to protests across Pakistan. In the weeks after the attack, over 2 million people signed a right to education petition, and the National Assembly swiftly ratified Pakistan's first Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill.
- 9. Establishing the Malala Fund and writing a book Malala became a global advocate for the millions of girls being denied a formal education. In 2013, Malala and Ziauddin co-founded 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 wrote a biography on her so that everyone in the world could know that which type of life she was living under. The book name was “I am Malala” and was published worldwide on October 8th, 2013.
- 10. Nobel Peace Price Award After all Malala did for children to be educated she at last deserved to earn the Nobel Peace Prize Award.On 10th December, 2014 Malala was given the Nobel Peace Prize with Indian children's rights and education advocate Kailash Satyarthi. Malala contributed her $1.1 million prize money for financing the creation of secondary schools for girls in Pakistan.
- 11. The list of awards received 2011 1. International Children's Peace Prize nominee 2. National Youth Peace Prize 2012 3. Sitar a-Shujat(Pakistan's third highest bravery award) 4. Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 5. Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action 2013 6. Simone de Beauvoir Prize 7. Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 8. Doughty Street Advocacy Award Of Index on Cencorship 9. Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of The UK National Union of Teachers 10.Annual award for development of OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) 11.International Campaigner of The Year, Observer Ethical Awards 12.Tipperary International Peace Award, Irelnad Tipperary Peace Convention 13.International Children's Peace Priz, KidsRights 14.Ambassador of Conscience Award From Amnesty International 15.Clinton Global Citizen Awards from Clinton Foundation 16.Harvard Foundation's Peter Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University 17.European Union's annual Human Rights Award 2014 18.Nobel Peace Prize Award
- 12. Memory Challenge 1. Where was Malala born? 2. Who attacked Malala? 3. Who are Taliban? 4. When did Malala win the Nobel Peace Prize? 5. Name any three awards Malala won?
- 14. Thanks