Malala, a brave girl from Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai
1997-
Malala was born in a small town of Mingora, in the Swat Valley of Pakistan.
She lived with her mother, father, and two brothers.
Malala started school early at the school her father ran, and excelled in her studies.
The Taliban, a group of religious extremists, had gained power in the Swat Valley and
discouraged girls from attending school. Malala asked her father,
"Why don´t they want girls to go to school?" "They are scared of the pen," he replied.
When Malala was only eleven, she first spoke publicly about the importance of education for girls.
Even as the Taliban became more aggressive, Malala continued to speak out.
The threats continued, never stopping Malala—until the day a Taliban fighter shot her as she rode
home in a school van. The bullet went through her head and neck to her shoulder. Malala was treated in
many hospitals, and finally in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in England,
where she now lives with her family.< /span>
Malala has received many awards for bravery, including the International Children´s Peace Prize (runner-up),
the Pakistan National Youth Peace Prize, the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for
Social Justice, and the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action. In 2013,
she was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
She continues to recover and she continues to speak out.
"Who is Malala?" the Taliban fighter demands, looking into the school van.
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