Malala Research Paper

Malala Yousafzei was born on July 12, 1997, in Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtukhwa

Province, Pakistan. As a young Pakistani girl, she was not allowed to go to school by orders of

the Taliban. However, growing up with a principal for a father, the brave young girl was still

motivated to get her education. Thus, her family continued to secretly transport her to a school

near their home. In 2009, when she was just 11 years old, Malala wrote an anonymous BBC

diary about life and education under the Taliban. She wanted to share her experiences with the

rest of the world to bring forth awareness and change. In 2011, she won Pakistan’s first Youth

National Peace Prize.

As Malala grew older, tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban also grew. Her

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however, Malala was on her way back from school via school bus, and she was shot in the head.

Miraculously, she survived and became a world phenomenon for her bravery. Soon after, she

used her newfound fame to become an activist for female education.

In 2013, she published a book. The memoir, called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up

for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, has sold over one million copies and translated into

forty languages. It spread all over the world to girls that still experienced oppression. Not only

did her book inspire many people, but it fueled the fight for equal rights to education.

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In the fall of 2013, Malala established the Malala Fund. It’s goal is to secure girls’ right

to a minimum of 12 years of quality education, particularly in the global south where bans on

girls’ education are prominent. Since it began, it has raised over 7 million dollars. On her 18th

birthday, she opened a girls’ school in Syria. Through the fund, the school hosts up to 200

hundred girls aged 14 to 18. Although there is still over a million girls who need an education in

Syria, Malala’s contribution has changed many