Malala Yousafzai

Gabrielle Doe
 Early Life and Family
● Born in Mingora, Pakistan
○ Tourist area until the Taliban tried to take
control
○ Pakistani people want to have boys not girls
● Born on July 12, 1997
● Parents
○ Father: Ziauddan - founder of the school
that she attended and is an education
activist
■ Determined to give her every
opportunity a boy would have
○ Mother: Toor Pekai - now learning to read
and write and speak english
 The Problem
● 2008: the Taliban took over the Swat
Valley
○ Taliban = extremists which ban things
■ TV, music, and more
○ The Taliban declared that girls could
not attend school
○ If people didn’t follow their rules,
there would be terrible punishments
● January 2008: Malala said goodbye to
many classmates, but she remained in
school
● Taliban attacked girls’ schools
 Malala’s Fight
● September 2008: “How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic
Right to Education?”
○ Speech in Peshawar
● In 2009 she became a blogger under the BBC about living with the
Taliban’s ban of education
○ She used the name Gul Makai, but her real name was revealed
● Because of her activism, the Taliban issued a death threat against
her
 Shot by the Taliban
● October 9, 2012 Malala was riding the bus home from school
● A masked man boarded the bus
○ He asked “Who is Malala?”
○ He shot her on the left side of her head and travelled down her
neck
○ Two other girls were injured
● She was flown to a military hospital in Peshawar and then to
Birmingham, England
● She was put in a medically induced coma and required multiple
surgeries
● The surgeries fixed her injuries and she had no major brain
damage
 Aftermath
● She began to attend school in Birmingham
● The shooting caused people all over the world to gather in support
of her
● She was still seen as a target
● In 2018 she returned to Pakistan for the first time- delivered a
speech at the Prime Minister’s office
 Malala Fund
● Charity
● Dedicated to giving every girl the opportunity to go to school
○ Invests in developing country educators and activists
● Malala travels to different countries to meet girls fighting poverty,
wars, child marriage and gender discrimination that keep them
out of school
 Awards
● October 10, 2013: Sakharov Peace prize for Freedom of Thought
● April 2017: U.N. Messenger of Peace to promote girls’ education
● Canadian honorary citizenship
● 2014: Youngest person to earn Nobel Peace Prize
● Mother Teresa Awards
● International Children’s Peace Prize
 Leadership Lessons
1. Take a Stand
2. Find Your Story
3. Be Yourself
4. Listen Well
5. Focus on Your Goal
 Assessment
● Malala is a level 4 leader
● The book reveals a reality that is common to most
but not common to us
● The leadership lessons must be interpreted