Malala Yousafzai - The Power of a Girl

Malala was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, a town in northwest Pakistan's Swat District. She developed an early supporter of girls' education.

Her family is Pashtun-ethnic and Sunni Muslim.Malalai of Maiwand, a well-known Pashtun poet and warrior woman from southern Afghanistan, inspired the choice of her first name, Malala. She shared a home in Mingora with her parents, Ziauddin and Tor Pekai, two pet hens, and her two younger brothers, Khushal and Atal.Yousafzai received most of her education from her father.

Ziauddin, who had always had a passion for education, had a school next to the family's house in Swat. In Pakistan, which has the second-highest percentage of out-of-school children worldwide, he was well-known for being a champion for education. He also became a vocal opponent of Taliban efforts to impose restrictions on education and prevent girls from attending school.

Yousafzai began advocating for the right to education in September 2008, when her father drove her to Peshawar so she could give a speech at the local press club."How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" In a speech that was broadcast on local television stations and publications, Yousafzai posed this question to her audience.

Malala cherished education and had a similar enthusiasm for learning as her father. Under a false identity, Malala started blogging for the BBC Urdu service in 2009 as the Taliban's military takeover of Swat grew stronger. She discussed her concerns about potential attacks on her school and the rising military presence in the region. Women were forbidden from shopping, music and television were outlawed, and Ziauddin was informed that his school would have to close.

Despite receiving threats against their lives, Malala and her father persisted in advocating for the right to an education. It was at this period that Malala was identified as the writer of the BBC blog and was highlighted in a documentary produced for The New York Times.

A masked shooter approached the school bus carrying 15-year-old Malala and her pals on October 9, 2012, as they were making their way home from class and called Malala by name. One gunshot entered her body and passed through her neck, shoulder, and head. The attack also injured two of her companions.

Malala was very ill yet managed to survive the initial attack. She was transferred to a hospital that specialises in treating military injuries in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her family had joined her in the UK by January 2013, the month she was finally released from custody.

Yousafzai received an enormous amount of support after the shooting, and this support persisted while she was recovering. 2013 saw her make a speech at the UN on her sixteenth birthday. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is her autobiography, which was published in October 2013. Regretfully, Yousafzai is still a target for the Taliban. A right to education petition was signed by nearly two million people in the weeks following the attack, and Pakistan's first right to free and compulsory education bill was quickly adopted by the National Assembly.

Achievements:-

• October 2012. Sitara-e-Shujaat, the third-highest civilian bravery award in Pakistan.

• In order to increase awareness of the social and economic benefits of girls' education and to provide them with the tools they need to realise their full potential and demand change, Malala and Ziauddin co-founded the Malala Fund in 2013.

• On December 10, 2014, Malala and Indian proponent of children's rights and education Kailash Satyarthi collected the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala donated all of her more than $500,000 prize money to the establishment of a secondary school for girls in Pakistan.

• Time magazine listed Malala as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" in its issues from 2013, 2014, and 2015.

• Over 200 Syrian girls living in makeshift camps and out-of-school in the Bekaa Valley region will get high-quality secondary education at the Malala Fund's "Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School," which opened in honour of Malala's eighteenth birthday in Lebanon, close to the Syrian border..