Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17 in 2014, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban.

✍🏼 Using the pseudonym Gul Makai, she was only 11 when she started blogging about what life was like under the Taliban for the BBC.

✨ On October 9, 2012, Malala boarded a bus to advocate for Pakistani girls' education when the Taliban shot her in the head and neck. She was 15 at the time and was not expected to survive her injuries.

🏆 It was almost two years to the day when Malala was shot that she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was 17 and the youngest recipient to receive it. She shared the distinguished award with Kailash Satyarthi, another children's rights activist.

✨ Because of the violent assassination attempt on Malala, Pakistan announced the creation of the very first Right to Education Bill.

✨ To date, Malala has received over 40 awards and honors for her bravery and activism, including an honorary doctorate from the University of King's College in 2014 and a Grammy Award for Best Children's Album (for the audiobook I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World) in 2015.

🏫  When Malala turned 18, she opened an all-girls school for Syrian refugees, calling on leaders from around the world to provide "books not bullets."

✨ In 2015 an asteroid was named in honor of Malala.

✨ In April 2017 Malala became a UN Messenger of Peace.

❝When the world is silent, even one voice is powerful.❞

 

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