Malala Yousafzai: A Positive Impact On The World

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Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai has a positive impact on the world because she fights for girls’ educational rights, and puts the desire for education in girls’ hearts. She helps girls get an education and speaks out against the discrimination shown towards them. She Malala is one of the most widely known and influential speakers for girls educational rights. She continues to help girls all over the world, and inspires them to do better in school. Malala always loved going to school and getting an education, and her father, Ziauddin, influenced her love of education. Her father ran a school that she went to, he also spoke out about the injustice of girls’ education. Following in her father’s footsteps, she too decided to speak out. Malala …show more content…

She continues to give speeches, and speaks out against the unjust education for girls. She and her father created the Malala Fund to bring awareness to the educational suppression. Shooting Malala was a bad idea for the Taliban. She became even more popular than she was. There were news stories and interviews done about her, which brought attention to her cause. Malala has helped girls everywhere go to school, and because of that she has won many great awards for her efforts. She won a National Youth Peace Prize in 2011. Malala was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize by Archduke Desmond Tutu. Malala was also nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize twice. In 2013 she was nominated but didn’t win. On December 10, 2014 she did win though. Malala donated 1.1 million dollars to help build a secondary school for girls in Pakistan. At seventeen, Malala became the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Malala once said, “For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.”(BBC.com) Malala continues to get an education in Birmingham, because it is too dangerous for her back home. At her old school, she inspired so many girls there that they put a newspaper clipping about her on a door for everyone to see. On Malala’s sixteenth birthday, she gave a live speech

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