Blog#5
For
this blog I would like to share my inspirational young lady is” Malala
Yousafzai” the most inspired educational activist who born in Mingora, Pakistan
in July 12 in 1997. Malala is a daughter of an outspoken social activist and educator;
Yousafzai was an excellent student. Her father who decided to establish and
administered the school she attended, Khushal Girls High School and College in
the city of Mingora encouraged her to follow in his path in 2007 the Swat
valley in Pakistan. At a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for knowledge,
and she expressed about her love and passion to lean and get higher education.
For years her father a passionate of education advocate himself, ran a learning
institution in the city. School and education
were a big part of Malala’s family.
In
2007, when Malala was ten years old, the situation in the Swat Valley rapidly
changed for her family and community. The Taliban began to control the Swat
Valley and quickly became the dominant socio-political force throughout much of
northwestern Pakistan. Girls were banned from attending school, and cultural
activities like dancing and watching television were prohibited. Suicide
attacks were widespread, and the group made its opposition to a proper
education for girls a cornerstone of its terror campaign.
By the end of 2008, the Taliban had destroyed
some 400 schools in the area. Pakistan’s war with the Taliban was fast
approaching, and on May 5, 2009, Malala became an internally displaced person
after having been forced to leave her home and seek safety hundreds of miles
away. after
weeks of being away from Swat, Malala once again used the media and continued
her public campaign for her right to go to school. Her voice grew louder, and
over the course of the next three years, she and her father became known
throughout Pakistan for their determination to give Pakistani girls access to a
free quality education. Her activism resulted in a nomination for the
International Children’s Peace Prize in 2011. That same year, she was awarded
Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize, but not everyone supported and welcomed
her campaign to bring about change in Swat. On the morning of October 9, 2012,
15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban. Malala was sated on a bus
heading home from school while she was talking with her friends about
schoolwork. Two members of the Taliban stopped the bus. A young bearded Talib
asked for Malala by name and fired three shots at her. One of the bullets
entered and exited her head and lodged in her shoulder. Malala was seriously
wounded. That same day, she was airlifted to a Pakistani military hospital in
Peshawar and four days later to an intensive care unit in Birmingham, England.
After
the shooting, her incredible recovery and return to school resulted in a global
outpouring of support for Malala. On July 12, 2013, her 16th birthday, Malala
visited New York and spoke at the United Nations. Later that year, she
published her first book, an autobiography entitled “I Am Malala: The Girl Who
Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.” On October 10, 2013.
Currently
she is residing in Birmingham, Malala is an active proponent of education as a
fundamental social and economic right. Through the Malala Fund and with her own
voice, Malala Yousafzai remains a staunch advocate for the power of education
and for girls to become agents of change in their communities and make
difference in the world. As Malala always say “I believe we will see every girl
in school in my lifetime.”
I
consider Malala very inspired young woman because she created the meaning of
the change in women and children in country cannot even express about their rights
and freedom. Malala was the voice for each woman in her country. Voice that
call for love, education and freedom.
Reference
https://www.biography.com/activist/malala-yousafzai.
https://www.malala.org/malalas-story.
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