Yousafzai graduates just eight years after being shot by the Taliban.
. “But everything changed when the Taliban took control of our town in Swat Valley. The extremists banned many things — like owning a television and playing music — and enforced harsh punishments for those who defied their orders. And they said girls could no longer go to school.”
It was after publicly protesting that a gunman boarded Yousafzai’s school bus and shot her in the head. In honor of the work she’s done to further girl’s education and fight against the suppression of women, Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014 and became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate.
Yousafzai also founded the Malala Fund which works to help the over 130,000,000 girls around the world who are not currently in school. “Through our Education Champion Network, we invest in local educators and advocates — the people who best understand girls in their communities — in regions where the most girls are missing out on secondary school,” she wrote. Yousafzai also works tirelessly to hold governments and leaders accountable and amplifies girls’ voices through the fund’s newsletter.
When Yousafzai’s not studying or working with her organizations, she’s been known to hang out with some pretty impressive friends, including Greta Thunberg who she spent time with this year at Oxford.
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