Malala Yousafzai

[Warrigal]

One day this girl should be President of Pakistan

Malala Yousafzai donates prize to rebuild Gaza schools

October 30, 2014

Global recognition: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has won the World's Children's Prize. Photo: AFP

Mariefred, Sweden: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says she is giving her entire winnings from a children's rights award to help rebuild schools in war-ravaged Gaza. The UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, which has launched a $US1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) appeal for aid for Gaza, said on Wednesday she would be donating all $US50,000 ($57,000) of her World's Children's Prize.

"This money will totally go to the rebuilding of schools for children in Gaza, so I think it will definitely help those children to continue their education, to get quality education," the 17-year-old Pakistani said at the awards ceremony.

"We already know how children have suffered in Gaza from conflicts and war, so those children need our support right now, because they are going through many difficult situations."

The money will be donated via UNRWA to help rebuild 65 schools in the Gaza Strip. The tiny Palestinian territory was devastated in the July-August conflict this year between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza militants. Nearly 2000 Palestinians were killed, most of them civilians, as well as 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers. The conflict also destroyed tens of thousands of houses in the impoverished strip, as well as key infrastructure, and left some 100,000 Gazans homeless.

Malala, the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, is also the first child to win the World's Children's Prize. Anne Frank was honoured posthumously. Malala was shot in the head in 2012 by the Taliban near her home in Pakistan's Swat Valley for her advocacy of girls' right to go to school.

Organisers of the Worlds' Children's Prize said she was honoured for her "courageous and dangerous fight for girls' right to education". The award was created in 2000 and is part a worldwide educational programme in which children learn about global issues, democracy and their own rights.
AFP

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[SeaBreeze]

I wish her the best in her future, she is very admirable.

 

[Debby]

Is she not the most awesome person you've heard of lately! How remarkable and totally selfless!

I like to collect stories of remarkable people and she just got added to a (so far) very short list.

 

[chic]

She is totally selfless, but I feel a bit naive and optimistic. ( I read her book which was very good). I hope she lives to become an adult.

 

[Knightofalbion]

A noble soul.

 

[SeaBreeze]

She had her ceremony, here's some information and video. She was interrupted by a man from Mexico who was desperate for those in his country.
http://www.ibtimes.com/mexican-man-interrupts-malala-yousafzai-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony-1747300

The outburst came during a time of outrage in Mexico over the disappearance of 43 students, who some Mexicans believe were killed by corrupt Mexican policemen at the request of corrupt Mexican politicians.

The Mexican government is facing pressure by citizen protests over the slow response in investigating the September incident.The man may have been alluding to the disappearances of the students in Iguala, Mexico, since Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy in fighting for women’s education. Malala, 17, was 15 whenshe was shot by the Taliban in her native Pakistan for refusing to stop attending school.

The Mexican students, who were from a left-wing college and training to be teachers, were believed to have been detained by corrupt police and then had their bodies burned by a drug gang, Reutersreported Sunday.

The mayor of Iguala and his wife were among 80 people detained in a probe of the incident after the couple were accused of trying to kick the students out of his town for staging a protest.

 

[Grumpy Ol' Man]

This is one sharp young lady!! Due to the radicals of her own religion, she was shot and left to die. From the victim of an assasination attempt to one of the world's best ambassadors for education... what courage!! I still believe we will all appear shocked when we read the headline as the next assassination attempt is successful. Such a shame that a global society so advanced we can defeat the likes of Ebola, polio, small pox, etc. is still reft with those who would murder rather than allow the female gender of their religion to become educated.

I better stop. Otherwise, I'll really go off the deep end!!!!