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.
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Malala Yousafzai announced the first grant from the charity fund set up in her name, with support from Angelina Jolie.
Read the full storyMalala Yousafzai has returned to school for the first time since she was attacked by the Taliban in October last year.
She went to Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham where she will now study before choosing which subjects she wants to take at GCSE level.
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.
It's being reported by NBC that Malala Yousafzai – the young girl shot in the face by the Taliban – has been formally nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala, who was treated for her injuries at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was shot on her way home from school for her efforts in promoting girls' education in Pakistan.
Her name was put forward by three members of the Norwegian parliament on Friday.
If awarded, Malala will be the youngest recipient and one of only 15 females to be awarded the prize.
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl who is being treated in a UK hospital after she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan, is set to stay in Britain after her father was given a job by the Pakistan consulate in Birmingham.
Ziauddin Yousufzai has been given a role in education for at least three years.
15-year-old Malala Yousafzai has asked authorities in Pakistan to reverse a decision to rename a school in her honour, in order to avert attacks on students, officials said.
Malala made the request after students broke into the school, tore down Malala's picture and boycotted classes in her home town of Mingora.
A government official said Malala called him from hospital in the UK, where she is recovering after being shot by the Taliban for promoting education across Pakistan.
President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zadari is due to visit Malala Yousafzai in hospital in Birmingham.
The 14-year-old made a name for herself by speaking out against the Taliban and advocating education for women. She wrote a blog for the BBC's Urdu Service about her experience living in the Swat Valley.
She is was shot in the head and neck after a Taliban militant boarded the school bus she was travelling on in the capital of the Swat Valley region Mingora. Doctors say her injuries are not life-threatening.
A vigil for the Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai is being held outside Birmingham Council.
More than 600 people from around the world have posted messages of support for the 14-year-old on support page set up by Birmingham Hospital.
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