Malala Yousafzai: A Brief Biography

Malala Yousafzai A single shot was heard from the school bus. People rushed to help, but it appeared that they were already too late. A bullet tore through the head, neck and shoulder of Malala Yousafzai. Millions waited, listening for any news on the Pakistani school girl’s condition. Initial reports informed the public that a lone gunmen had tried to kill Malala on her way back from exams at her school. The teen activist for women 's and children’s education now laid in a hospital bed in critical condition dying for what she believed in. Fifteen years earlier on July 12, 1997, Malala Yousafzai was born into a muslim family in northwest Pakistan. Her father was a poet and an education activist. Growing up, Malala’s father played a huge influence in her life. She attended the private schools that her father owned during the day, and at night she talked politics with him. When she was around eleven years old she began to speak out against the injustices that were inflicited upon her and women everywhere. Saying to her local press club, “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education.” She grew up with a very loving and caring family that encouraged her to bring social issues to the public eye, and fight for what she believed was right and morally correct. During this time the Taliban ran rampant through Pakistan. They controlled …show more content…
She appeared on many television shows, and revealed that see was the one write the blogs, who were previously written under an anonymous author to the public eye. Malala began to grow in momentum and her message reach more and more people. Her promotion of women’s and children’s education put her on national media, but it also placed her under the Taliban’s eye. After receiving the National Youth Peace Prize in December of 2011 she began to set out to create the Malala Education Foundation to help send girls that cant afford school, got to