Malala announces first grant from charity fund
Malala Yousafzai announced the first grant from the charity fund set up in her name, with support from Angelina Jolie.
Malala Yousafzai announced the first grant from the charity fund set up in her name, with support from Angelina Jolie.
It is the first day of term in Swat Valley Pakistan and the girls in High School have much to be thankful for.
Speaking for the first time since her attack by the Taliban, schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai said she wants every child to be educated.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is now UN Special Envoy for Global Education, has described the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban last year as a 'shining beacon for girls education.
He said:
– Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education"Malala is a true inspiration and a shining beacon for girls education around the world. I am full of admiration for her courage and determination in the journey she is on, and am sure that she can become a real leader in the campaign for a school place for every girl - and every boy."
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl brought to the UK and treated in Birmingham after being shot in the head by the Taliban, features in a list of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
The 15-year-old has set up education charity the Malala Fund and is now a pupil at Edgbaston High School for Girls.
She appears on one of the issue's seven separate covers.
Time managing editor Rick Stengel said: "This year we are trying something new: seven cover portraits of Time 100 honorees who reflect the breadth and depth of our list, each one profiled inside- as is our tradition- by an equally luminary voice."
A 15 year-old girl who was shot in the head for promoting women's education by the Taliban in Pakistan is to give her first public speech.
Malala Yousafzai was taken to Birmingham for life-saving surgery and now lives there.
Malala will speak on Malala Day, her 16th birthday, on 12 July in New York.
Malala Yousafzai announced the first grant from the charity fund set up in her name, with support from Angelina Jolie.
Read the full storyA fifteen-year-old girl who survived after being shot in the head for promoting girls' education in Pakistan has gone back to school.
Malala Yousafzai had life saving surgery in Birmingham after being targetted by the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai said it is "the happiest moment" that she is returning to school following her attack.
She said, "I want to learn about politics, about social rights and about the law. I want to learn how to bring change in this world":
Malala Yousafzai has spent her first day at school since being attacked by the Taliban in October last year.
The 15-year-old was shot in the head for campaigning for girls' education
While making her way to Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, Malala told her father Ziauddin, "It is an honour for me and it's what I dreamed ... I'm on my way to my dream":
UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown said today is a "great day" for Malala Yousafzai.
Mr Brown said in a statement:
This is a great day for Malala, for her family - and for the cause of education worldwide.
By her courage, Malala shows that nothing - not even bullets, intimidation or death threats - can stand in the way of the right of every girl to an education.
I wish Malala and her family well as her courageous recovery continues.
Malala Yousafzai, the pakistani girl who was shot in the head, at point black range, but the Taliban has completed her first day at school. She's attending the Edgbaston High School, an independent day school for girls.
She received treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
The 15 year old said, “I am excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school. I want all girls in the world to have this basic opportunity."
"I miss my classmates from Pakistan very much but I am looking forward to meeting my teachers and making new friends here in Birmingham”, she added.
A global day to call for the education of all girls and women is to be held in honour of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, it has been announced.
Her father Ziauddin and former prime minister Gordon Brown outlined plans for Malala Day as they appeared at the Women of the World Festival at London's Southbank Centre on International Women's Day.
Mr Brown said the issue of universal education for girls was in desperate need of a "liberation movement and a freedom fight for change".
Malala Day will be held on the girl's 16th birthday, July 12, and will be celebrated with a youth assembly at the United Nations in New York.It is hoped that young people from around the world will mark the day, aimed at providing education for the 32 million girls who do not currently have access.