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Malala Yousoafzai

Who is this brave young woman?

1997

Born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12, 1997. Welcoming a baby girl is not always cause for celebration in Pakistan — but her father was determined to give me every opportunity a boy would have.

2008

Her father was a teacher and ran a girls’ school. The Taliban took control of their town. The extremists banned many things, and they said girls could no longer go to school.

In January 2008 when she was just 11 years old, she said goodbye to her classmates.

2012

Malala spoke out publicly on behalf of girls and their right to learn. This made her a target. In October 2012, on her way home from school, a masked gunman boarded my school bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” He shot her on the left side of her head.

I woke up 10 days later in a hospital in Birmingham, England.

2014

After months of surgeries and rehabilitation, she joined her family in their new home in the U.K. She established Malala Fund, a charity dedicated to giving every girl an opportunity to achieve a future she chooses. In recognition of her work, she received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014 and became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXvs1vwiD0M

Vocabulary

• 1.      Prosperity (noun): the condition of being successful or thriving, especially in terms of wealth 19. Compulsory (adjective): having the power of forcing someone to do something; required by law

  2.      Dignity (noun): the quality of being worthy of respect

  3.      Conservative (adjective): holding to traditional attitudes and showing caution regarding change

  4.      Deprivation (noun): the lack of necessities

  5.      Prosperity (noun): the condition of being successful or thriving, especially in terms of wealth 19.

  6.      Compulsory (adjective): having the power of forcing someone to do something; required by law

Malala Yousafzai’s Address to the United Nations, July 2013 

https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/malala-yousafzai-s-address-to-the-united-nations-july-2013

Works cited

• https://malala.org/malalas-story

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXvs1vwiD0M

• https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/malala-yousafzai-s-address-to-the-united-nations-july-2013