Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997. She lived with her parents and two younger brothers in Swat Valley of Pakistan.
When she was studying secondary school, a group of people forcefully closed down many schools for girls in the Swat Valley. Because they believed the girls don't have rights to go to shcool so, they attacked them while going to school. For this reason, the schools remained closed.
Malala was very dejected with this. She believed that each girl has the right to get education like boys. She wants to accomplish the desires of girls towards education. Ziauddin Yousafzai, her father who was a poet, didn't stopped Malala from protesting for girls education, as he knew that his daughter is special. He took Malala to a group of reporters in 2008 to talk about how she was disappointed when the schools remained closed and about her thought of girls education. Her speech was published in many newspapers and showed in Televisions.
Some reporters from BBC came to Malala later that year to ask her to write an internet dairy about her life.This was a hazardous one to Malala, but she was ready to take such a big risk. The first dairy entry she wrote was posted on 3 January 2009. But this was under the false name of Gul Makai.
Malala not only wrote about the raggeder things happening in the Swat Valley, but also the ordinary things about her life. On 25 February 2009, Malala and the other girls celebrated the reopening of their schools. Malala saw that the situation seemed to be getting better and she wrote her last entry on 12 March 2009.
Although her BBC diary entry has ended, she still wanted to speak about the bad things happening around her. After that she started giving interviews and even appeared on televisions. In December 2009, it was disclosed that Malala Yousafzai was the girl who wrote about Swat Valley was not Gul Makai.
She also won the Pakistan's first National Youth Prize in December 2011.
She also requested the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Gilani to set up a secondary school named after her and a technology department in Swat Degree college as she desires to improve education in her country.
At 2012, Malala made plans for Malala Education Foundation which would help poor girls to go to school.
At the following year 9 October, she was shot on her head by a Pakistani Taleban while going to school. She was in a critical condition and was given a very good medical treatment in England. She discharged from the hospital on 3 January 2013.
Malala was now even more curios to continue her bold fight for girls education. She went to United Nations on 12 July 2013, her sixteenth birthday to speak about her fight. She told that this sudden attack only made her even more stronger. In October 2013 TV Interview, she said that "A woman is very poweful, but when she gets education, she becomes even more powerful."
Quotes :
1. "One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
2. "Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."
3. " With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism. "
4. "Even when the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
5. "If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it ?"
Malala means ("grief - stricken"), but actually she is a significance of happiness and hope. Her biography tells that anyone, at any age can fight for fairness.
