Malala Yousufzai; The Girl Who Stood For Her Rights And Got Shot By Taliban

Malala Yousufzai, a 20 year old girl, is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate and first Pakistani that was awarded Nobel Prize. She was born into village areas of Sawat where Taliban ruled and burnt schools in order to not let girls go for schooling. At age 12, Malala wrote her first blog for BBC Urdu describing the condition of her village and Taliban’s inhuman activities.

Malala was known for her women rights advocacy and promoting education from childhood as she gave printed and on television interviews. She was nominated for international children’s peace price at a very young age for her activities.

On October 2012, she and some of her friends were shot by Taliban and she was injured badly. Luckily, she survived the attack and was shifted to UK for treatment after getting media’s attention. She got national and international support for advocating women rights and promoting education.

Malala says that she was named after a brave and legendry woman of Khyber whose name was Malala. She says that my father named me Malala but I made myself Malala by my hard works and dedication.

Malala runs a non-profit organization named Malala organization that helps children and girls worldwide study and she provides them educational facilities with the slogan: One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. She also co-authored the best-selling book I am Malala.

She was awarded so many awards some are: Nobel Prize, Honorary Canadian Citizenship, national youth peace prize, Sakharov award, Sitara-i-imtiaz and some other awards.

Malala Yousufzai is a big inspirational name worldwide for girls and every individual that thinks to bring change and raise their voice when everyone else is silent.