"The Importance of Education"

We started this new year school talking about a special girl who stands for the right of education for all children in the world: Malala Yousazfai. In 2009 she started to blog for the BBC URDU. She wrote about her desire to go to school and her life as a subjugated to the Talibans who are an Islamic fundamentalist group leading in Pakistan. On the morning of October 9, 2012, Malala was shot when she was on a bus by two members of the Talibans. They stopped the bus, asked for her specifically and fired three shots at her head. Luckily she survived. In October 2014 she was announced she would have received a Peace Noble Prize, being the youngest girl who has ever reached such a goal. Accepting the award she said: "This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want a change.” In 2013 she also opened a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon, all expenses covered by the Malala Fund. To better understand how such a young girl can be so powerful we could read her book, “I Am Malala”, in which she narrates her life and her battle against abuses. Despite of the fact that she is still in a dangerous position, Malala puts all her efforts in the fight for girls' education and empowerment, and inspires them to raise their voices and unlock their potential. She is also a spokesperson for the million of girls being denied a formal education because of social, economic, legal and political factors, for, as she says "if one man can destroy anything, why can't one girl change it?"

Please give a look to her amazing story clicking down here