Malala Day, 2021

Every July 12th is Malala Day, a celebration of Malala Yousafzai and her message. Malala was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she advocates for the rights of children and women. At 23 Malala is still young and fighting for education.

Check out this recent interview from Vogue – “I Know The Power A Young Girl Carries In Her Heart”: The Extraordinary Life Of Malala

For almost 13 years, ever since she began campaigning for girls’ rights in Pakistan as an 11-year-old, this has been Malala’s message to the world. Under Taliban rule in the city of Mingora in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, Malala – all girls – were banned from attending school. Her refusal to forgo her right to education led to an attack on her life aged 15, when a Taliban gunman shot her and two classmates as they travelled home from school in a bus in October 2012. She was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with her father, Ziauddin, mother, Toor, and younger brothers, Atal and Khushal, made a miraculous recovery – and doubled down on her activism.

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