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Malala Day-12th July

Through education, we can fight terrorism,
not through guns, not through weapons.” -Malala Yousafzai

On 12th July, 2013, Malala day was declare in the honor of the young activist Malala Yousafzai by United Nations (UN), which is also her birthday. On 12th July a sixteen-year-old girl delivered declamatory speech at the United Nations headquarters on the need for gender equality in education, engaged in promotion of women’s education. Malala Day is commemorated to honour women and children’s rights around the world.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

Malala was born on 12th july,1997, in Mangora Swat district in North-West Pakistan into a Sunni Muslim family. She born and raised in a country where only boys were allowed an education and Taliban dominated the law. But she had her father and family on her side. Her father is also an activist who believed that the lack of education was the root of all problems in Pakistan. She studied in public school which was funded by his father. Her father always encouraged her to fight against wrong and pursue politics.

The Taliban took over the city in which she lived and banned girls for attending schools in 2007 but Malala refused to renounce her right to an education. Her father noticed her passion to fight for her and others against the Taliban’s oppressive campaign. He took to Peshawar to speak to local press club and at the age of 11 she gave her first speech at Peshawar, where she asked “How dare Taliban take away my basic right to education?”. Malala started to write a blog about life under Taliban rule under pseudonym of “Gul Mkai” in 2009 and also expressed her desire to go to school for the BBC. However she was revealed in December of the year. But with growing platform, malala continued to speak out about her right and the right of all women to education. All these her actions resulted in her nomination for the International Children’s peace prize in 2011 and same year she was awarded Pakistani’s National Youth Peace Prize.

The Taliban attempted to silence her with violence but Malala demonstrated fierce bravery by standing up to the Taliban. Because she knew that if she joined everyone with silence, nothing would change. Malala and her family came to know that the Taliban had issued a death threat against her because of her activism. Her family initially felt that they will not harm a child.

A ruthless attempt to silence her

On 9th October, 2012, Malala was riding a bus to return home with her friends, a masken gunman boarded the bus and demanded to know which girl is Malala and as her friends fearfully turned to look at her, he fired three shots. One bullet hit her in the left side of her head and the bullet travelled down her neck then she collapsed and the gunman made his escape. The shooting left Malala in critical condition so she was airlifted to a military hospital in Peshawar. Despite the bullet was removed she was far from stable. She was in an induced coma. Considering her critical condition offer to treat Malala, were poured from around the world, and she was transferred to Germany and then United Kingdom for further treatment.

She fights back again

In January 2013, she was finally released from hospital. After the shooting her life was very different, she had two choices i.e, retreat to safe or continue to fight. And she choose to fight for human rights. “Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don’t be afraid — if you are afraid, you can’t move forward”, she told herself.

The murder attempt inflamed worldwide outrage and protest across Pakistan. For the first time in her country a Right-to-Eduaction bill was passed and she gained global support to promote her cause. And on her 16th birthday, 12 July, 2013 she went to new York an delivered a speech. where she urged the world to challenge extremism with education. In the year 2014 she was nominated and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Prize. She was also chosen as the ‘Woman of the Year 201 3’ by Glamour Magazine and was in the time’s list of “100 Most Influential People in the World” the same year.

Since then, she has continued her activism with renewed courage. With over 40 honorary awards to her name, she has become a messenger of peace and a leading spokeperson for the girls’ right to education. Through her own non-profit Malala Fund, the devoted activist has funded education projects in six countries and keeps raising her voice to empower girls and become agents of change in their communities.

At a very young age she understood the importance of change and take actions to make change for good, for herself and for others like her. She was fearless and she always stood against terrorism and she said, “With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” Her voice has inspired millions and brought education to many. She is a super hero to many girls and women. She proved that if you fight for right nothing could stop you. She also wrote an autobiography, “I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban.”

May Malala Come in Every Lap!

Let’s peep in the alleys of the most promising international icon with exceptional zeal:

Malala Yousafzai (Pic Source: Google)

We Human beings are succumbing every minute to fear & bigotry since the mysterious accident by which life sprang on Earth .And also every era-produced Malala pick up the flag of humanity with the brave philanthropic hymns. The world which is now somehow livable, is about to celebrate the 24th birthday of an exceptional mental strength as well as of such a magnificent lens and throw a glance on the pager of her life:

The journey of an ordinary human to an extraordinary one started on July 12 , 1997 at Mingora in Pakistan. Since childhood, with the touch of her father. Ziauddin Yousafzai, a school owner and an educational activist himself (whom Malala termed as the ‘Falcon’) Malala got herself involved in human rights advocacy, especially education of women in her native swat valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the local  Taliban had banned girls from attending schools . Then the little mind rarely couldn’t take so much time to realize the bluffing of terror patriarchy and resolved to eradicate it for a harmonious life of every girl with a backbone.

When she was only 11 years old, She gave a speech in Peshawar on “How dare the Taliban take away our Basic Right to Education” In 2009 , She started blogging as a short step towards the zenith of her life. In 2011 , She was awarded ‘Pakistan’s  National youth peace prize’ In that year, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a south African activist, nominated her for the International Children’s Peace Prize of the Dutch International children‘s advocacy group kids Rights Foundation.

With Malala’s growing popularity, dangers too stealthily came along her way. On October 09, 2012, the Taliban ascended to the peak of inhumanity by shooting this 15-year old child  returning from school by bus. One bullet went through her head, neck and ended in her shoulder. Though her health was critical, her fighting spirit made her recover from the malign wounds and after almost 1 year restarted attending school.

Malala with her lovely Family, during her hospitalization (Pic Source: Google)

Eventually, Malala got a massive outpouring of support in the limelight. On July 12, 2013 on her 16th birthday Yousafzai delivered a speech at the United Nations. There she sad:

“The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this weakness, Fear and hopelessness died ; Strength, power and courage were born.”

–Malala

There Malala challenged orthodoxy, illiteracy & terrorisms:

“The extremists were and they are, afraid of books and pens… They are afraid of women… Let’s speak of our books and pens — our most powerful weapons.”

–Malala

On that very auspicious day, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, pronounced “Malala Day” in honor of The young leader’s activism. He assured that no child should have to die for learning and nowhere should teachers to teach.

When the second voyage of Malala’s life had just started to roll out the wheels, European parliament awarded her the ‘Sakharov Prize’ in 2013.

In the next year, conches of ‘Satyam’ blew when Malala became the youngest ever Nobel Prize Laureate. She received the award along with Kailash  Satyarthi, Indian children’s rights activist. This unparalleled and unequal ‘Global Teacher‘ became a gentle advocate of Peace.

Malala Yousafzai (Source: Google)

In April 2017, United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres appointed Yousafzai as a UN messenger of peace to promote girls’ education. She was also given Honorary Canadian Citizenship in 2017.

In the meanwhile, Yousafzai family launched the Malala fund in 2014 to ensure girls around the world have access to 12 years of free, safe & quality education, though later she revealed her extreme grief:

“The shocking truth is that world leaders have the money to fully fund primary AND secondary education around the world – but they are choosing to spend it on other things, like their military budgets. In fact, if the whole world stopped spending money on the military for just 8 days, we could have the $39 billion still needed to provide 12 years of free, quality education to every child on the planet.”

Malala wrote in her Website (https://malala.org/)

This torch bearer of Pakistan as well as of the enter world have offered the opportunity to go through the reviews by publishing books:

However Malala has taught all the Homo sapiens sapiens what education is, what consciousness is, what backbone is and what fearlessness is. We all are hopeful — this gene of Brave is/will be straight at the nook and corner of this world — every mother will stealthily smile, seeing her fearless child crying in its subconscious mind.