Girls Can Do Anything Inspirational Women - Malala Yuousafzai
Youngest
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
The Girls Can Do Anything gallery of
inspirational women would not be complete without a portrait of this incredible
young woman.
Malala
Yuousafzai captured the attention of the world when she came to the UK for
medical care following an assassination attempt in Pakistan when she was just
15 years old. This was no random
shooting. Malala had been speaking out about life under Taliban rule since she
was eleven years old. She wrote a blog under a pseudonym and was featured a New
York Times documentary in 2010. She gave
interviews and speeches in print and on television and was nominated for the International
Children’s Peace Prize.
She was
shot in the head, alongside two other girls, while on a school bus. Amazingly,
she survived and was brought to the UK for further treatment following
life-saving surgery in Peshawar. Since then, she has continued to speak out
about the right to education and is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2014, aged just 17.
Malala
Yuousafzai is probably one of the most iconic young people of our time. Her
courage and determination to make a difference provide an outstanding example
of the potential that every single one of us holds within us, to make positive
changes to our world.
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