Malala Yousafzai

In some parts of the world, girls can't work and they haven't got the
right to go to school. Malala Yousafzai can't accept this. In 2009,
when she was 12, Malala wrote a blog for the BBC about her life in
an area of Pakistan controlled by extremists. She told the world she
was studying at home because the extremists had closed her school.
She insisted that girls must have the right to education. The New
York Times made a documentary about her. Malala gave interviews,
and became famous, but her views made the extremists very angry.
They believed that it was wrong for girls to study.
Malala's school reopened but something terrible happened. On
Tuesday, 9th October 2012, she was getting on her school bus to go
home when a man shot her. She was very seriously injured, and
went to hospital in England.
She recovered and people all round the world praised her. Time
magazine called Malala one of the 100 most influential people in
the world" She won several important prizes for peace, including
one from her own country - Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize.
On 12th July 2013, Malala spoke at the UN in New York. She asked for
education for all kids worldwide. Then in October 2014, when she
was 17, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work. She was the
youngest winner ever to win the prize.
Malala says that education is the only answer to poverty. Without
education, there are no dreams for the future.