MY HERO

MALALA YOUSAFZAI
• She was born on 12 July 1997 in Mingora, Jaiber Pastunjuá, Pakistan.
Daughter of Ziauddin and Toorpekai Yousafzai, she has two brothers.
• Malala Yousafzai was only 11 when she began writing for the BBC her
blog about life in the Swat Valley, two years after the Taliban came to
power and ordered girls' schools to close.

“Monday January 5: Do not wear colorful dresses

I was getting dressed to go to school and I was going to put on my uniform but I could tell
that the principal had told us not to wear the uniform but our usual clothes. So I put on my
favorite pink dress. (...) Later, at school, we were told not to wear colorful clothes because
the Taliban would not agree..”
Blog extract
• On October 9, 2012 she was the
victim of an attack by a Tehrik and
Taliban Pakistan militiaman in
Mingora, who after boarding the
school bus where Malala was
traveling, repeatedly fired her pistol at
her and hit her skull and neck.

• TTP spokeswoman Ehsanullah Ehsan

said they will try to kill her again. Two
other students were also injured on
the bus.
 In May 2014, she
participated in the
campaign for the
On October 15, 2012, She was discharged on release of young
she was transferred to January 4, 2013. With Nigerian students
the Queen's Hospital the introduction of a kidnapped by an
in Birmingham, UK, for titanium plate and a Islamist group. She
fear of her safety and hearing device, entered speaks Pashtun and
recovery and a high school in English and is
reconstructive surgery, England. recognized for her
activism in favor of
civil rights, especially
women's rights.
 On October 10, 2014
In 2013 she was
she was awarded the
chosen by Time
Nobel Peace Prize
magazine as one of the
along with Hindu
most influential
Kailash Satyarthi, a
personalities in the
children's rights
world.
activist.

becoming the
youngest winner of
this award. Both were
rewarded for their
struggle against child
oppression and for
the right of all
children to education.
 I admire her for the following reasons:
BRAVE

MALALA
SMART GENEROUS
YOUFSAZAI

HARD
WORKING