Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in a Pakistani family whose parents are educators. She is a school student and also a feminist who is famous for her fighting for the womens human rights to accept education.
The youngest Nobel Prize winner, Malala is an advocate for education and womens human rights in her hometown Swat Valley, after blogging for the BBC beginning at age 11.
When she was 15, Malala was shot and seriously wounded by the Pakistani Taliban for advocating girls education. After recovering, she continued to insist on her defiant advocacy. “I demand of leaders we must invest in books instead of bullets,” Malala said in a speech “on behalf of the worlds children”.
Shortly after that, Malala opened a girls school for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The school, near the Syrian border, can hold up to 200 girls aged 14 to 18. It was paid for by Yousafzais non-profit Malala Fund.
She told Reuters the reason that she chose to open the school in Lebanons Bekaa Valley was “because I believe that the voices of the Syrian refugees need to be heard, and they have been ignored for so long”.
馬拉拉·優(yōu)素?!ぴ?,1997年7月12日出生于巴基斯坦一個(gè)教育工作者的家庭。她是一名學(xué)生,也是女權(quán)主義者,以爭取女性接受教育的權(quán)利而聞名。
馬拉拉是目前最年輕的諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)得主,11歲時(shí),她就開始為英國廣播公司撰寫博客。此后,在馬拉拉的家鄉(xiāng)史瓦特河谷,她一直是教育權(quán)和女性人權(quán)的倡導(dǎo)者。
馬拉拉15歲時(shí),因?yàn)槌珜?dǎo)女孩受教育權(quán)而被巴基斯坦塔利班組織嚴(yán)重射傷??祻?fù)后,她又繼續(xù)義無反顧地堅(jiān)持自己的主張。她在“代表全球兒童發(fā)聲”的一次演講中曾說道:“我呼吁各國領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人在書本而不是武器上投資?!?/p>
那之后不久,馬拉拉為黎巴嫩的敘利亞難民開辦了一所女子學(xué)校。這所學(xué)校鄰近敘利亞邊界,可容納200名14歲至18歲的女孩。該學(xué)校是由馬拉拉所創(chuàng)辦的非營利的“馬拉拉基金會(huì)”投資修建而成的。
她對路透社記者說,她之所以會(huì)在黎巴嫩的貝卡谷地開辦學(xué)校是“因?yàn)槲蚁嘈艛⒗麃嗠y民的聲音需要被聆聽,他們已經(jīng)被忽視太久了”。