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Malala Fund is an international, non-profit organization that advocates for girls' education. It was co-founded by Malala Yousafzai , the Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and her father, Ziauddin .
The school, funded by the not-for-profit Malala Fund, offers education and training to girls aged 14 to 18 years. Yousafzai called on world leaders to invest in "books, not bullets". [137] [138] Yousafzai has repeatedly condemned the Rohingya persecution in Myanmar. In June 2015, the Malala Fund released a statement in which Yousafzai argues ...
She is the co-founder and former CEO of the non-profit Malala Fund, which promotes education for every girl. [1] In 2013, she was included in Time 's "30 Under 30" list of world change-makers, and in 2014, she was listed in Forbes 's "30 Under 30" list of global social entrepreneurs. [2]
Following her recovery, Yousafzai became a prominent education activist. Based out of Birmingham, she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, [6] and in 2013 co-authored I am Malala, an international bestseller. [7] In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize. [8]
The Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education has estimated that an additional 20 million girls of secondary school age in low and middle-income countries may be out of school. The World Bank has estimated that 7 million primary and secondary school students are at risk of dropping out of school, with a 2% increase in the out-of-school ...
Ziauddin Yousafzai (Urdu: ضیاء الدین یوسفزئی; Pashto: ضیاالدین یوسفزی; born 20 April 1969) [1] is a Pakistani educational entrepreneur [2] and activist best known as the father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who protested against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan opposition to the education rights of girls, especially for Pakistani girls.
Farah Mohamed (born 1970) is a Canadian women's rights activist, public speaker, and business leader who founded G(irls)20, an annual event to bring together women from across the world. [1]
At age 11, Malala Yousafzai began writing an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu, detailing her life in Pakistan under the growing influence of the Taliban. [4] Following the blog, she was the subject of a New York Times documentary Class Dismissed, [5] and spoke out for female education in local media.