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”.
马拉拉·优素福·扎伊,1997年7月12日出生于巴基斯坦一个教育工作者的家庭。她是一名学生,也是女权主义者,以争取女性接受教育的权利而闻名。
马拉拉是目前最年轻的诺贝尔奖得主,11岁时,她就开始为英国广播公司撰写博客。此后,在马拉拉的家乡史瓦特河谷,她一直是教育权和女性人权的倡导者。
马拉拉15岁时,因为倡导女孩受教育权而被巴基斯坦塔利班组织严重射伤。康复后,她又继续义无反顾地坚持自己的主张。她在“代表全球儿童发声”的一次演讲中曾说道:“我呼吁各国领导人在书本而不是武器上投资。”
那之后不久,马拉拉为黎巴嫩的叙利亚难民开办了一所女子学校。这所学校邻近叙利亚边界,可容纳200名14岁至18岁的女孩。该学校是由马拉拉所创办的非营利的“马拉拉基金会”投资修建而成的。
她对路透社记者说,她之所以会在黎巴嫩的贝卡谷地开办学校是“因为我相信叙利亚难民的声音需要被聆听,他们已经被忽视太久了”。