2. WHO IS MALALA?
● Malala was born on 12 July 1997 in Pakistan.
● She´s an activist for female education and and an advocate
for human rights in her hometown Swat Valley.
● She is also the youngest Nobel Prize winner.
● Her family is against the taliban, her father is an
educational activist.
3. WHAT DID MALALA DO?
When the taliban arrived to pakistan Swat Valley and
prohibited girls to go to school back in 2008, Malala gave a
speech called "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right
to education?“. Then in 2009 Malala started a blogg for BBC,
she talked about how it was for girls to live under the
threats and rules from the Taliban, and denying them
education.A lot of people started visiting the blogg, she
continued to write about the girls right to have education.
This made her get a nomination for the Children's Peace Prize
in 2011, and she got awarded with the Pakistan's National
Youth Peace Prize
4. WHAT HAPPENED TO MALALA?
In 2012 Malala´s family learned that the taliban had issued a
dead threat against Malala. Her family thought that the
taliban would not hurt a child. On October 9, the same year
while Malala was riding a bus to go home, an armed man
boarded the bus and demanded to know what girl was Malala,
friends of her turned to see her, and that gave her away, the
man shot Malala in the side of head, but the bullet traveled
through her neck and ended up in her left shoulder. She was
left in critical condition but when se was stable they
transfered her to to Birmingham, England In the United
Kingdom she was taken out of a medical induced coma. She had
multiple surgeries to reconstruct the left side of her face,
5. WHY DOES MALALA INSPIRES PEOPLE?
She insipires people to not be afraid of saying what you
think, even if saying it risks your life, she teaches people
that you have to do what is right and that you don´t have to
be afraid of rasing your voice.
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are
silenced”