• Born on 12th July 1997 in Swat valley Pakistan.

the Taliban

taking over the region and gaining control in 2007. Girls were

banned from attending school, and cultural activities like dancing

and watching television were prohibited.

• But that didn’t STOP Malala. She went to school even

though she was on the Taliban’s hit list. When she was asked what

gave her the courage to do all this, she said that it was her father-

Ziauddin Yousafzai who gave encouraged her and motivated her

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 Becoming an Education Activist
• Determined to go to school and with a firm belief in her right to an
education, Malala stood up to the Taliban. "How dare the Taliban take
away my basic right to education?"

• Even though the Taliban threatened her, she went to school. Malala is a girl

who always stood for what she believed in. She never gave up. Instead
of waiting for the government or the militants to help them, she decided to
resolve issues on her own and do whatever she could, even when she
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 Attacked for Going to School

• Seated on a bus heading home from school, Malala was talking

with her friends about schoolwork. Two members of the Taliban

stopped the bus, asked for Malala by name, and fired three

shots at her head.

• But even a bullet couldn’t silence her.

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 “I’d tell him how important education is and that I would even want
education for your children as well. That’s what I want to tell you,
now do what you want.”

She has ; she’s shown

the world that nothing scares terrorists like an educated girl.

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 ACHIEVEMENTS

• 2011 nomination for the International Children's Peace Prize

• 2011 Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize
• 2013 The prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
• Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience.
• EU’s top human rights award,
• The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
• runner-up for Time’s person of The Year
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• 2013 Establishing the Malala Fund

 She launched the Malala Fund to fight for the rights of the “600 million adolescent

girls in the developing world.”

 Today, the Malala Fund has become an organization that, through education,

empowers girls to achieve their potential and become confident and strong leader

in their own countries.

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• 2014 Nobel Peace Prize

 the great success of Malala Yousafzai’s 16 years of living isn’t

necessarily the sort of thing they hand out awards for anyway.
It’s that she made it to 16 at all.

 She is the youngest person to be nominated for the Nobel

Peace Prize.

 4 Years ago she was in a hospital fighting for her life. Today
she’s a leader of a global movement.
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