Malala Yousafzai ~ task 1

Malala Yousafzai was born the 12^th of July 1997, in the town of Mingora in the Swat-valley in Pakistan. She is known for fighting for women’s right for education. It all started when Malala was 11-12 years, early in 2009. The Taliban took control over the Swat-valley, and banned girls from attending school. BBC wanted to cover what happened in Swat-valley by writing something. They found out that they wanted to get a young girl to write about her life in Swat-Valley, in the form of a blog. At first, a girl called Aisha was picked to write it, but her parents didn’t agree, and thought it was too dangerous, so the local school teacher, Ziauddin Yousafzai suggested his own daughter, Malala. She started to write a blog, where she wrote about girls in the Swat-valley, who couldn’t go to school.

The 9^th of October 2012, she was shot in the head and neck by Taliban, while she sat on a bus on her way home from school. Her injuries were so bad that she had to be moved to a hospital in Birmingham in England, and so, her family went too. At this day, she lives in England, and she is studying there, but when she is done with her education, she wants to come back to Swat-valley, to fight for girl’s right to education. She has a memoir, called I am Malala which she has written together with the British journalist Christina Lamb.

My opinion about Malala and her stands

I think Malala is very brave, especially since she is so young. She is also very mature for her age, she has been ever since she started blogging, and maybe before that too. I don’t think people who have the opportunity to get a real education appreciate education, while people in counties like Pakistan, who can’t get a real education, is the people who want it most. That is kind of what I think Malala means too. That people in for example Norway just take their education for granted, because in Norway, we all have the opportunity, but in Pakistan they don’t have the opportunity to get a real education, and that is important to Malala. Malala is brave. She agreed to write the blog while nobody else wanted to. She was shot in the head, and brought to Birmingham. She has released a memoir, and she is a fighter for girls’ education.

 Malala fights for what she believes in. I think she is an inspiration, and I agree with Malala that we should fight for girl’s right for education, in every country. Why shouldn’t girls have the rights to educate themselves? Girls are just as smart as boys, if not smarter. And I think there is so much undiscovered potential in girls who haven’t got the chance yet. Maybe they have the skills to be the next president in some country? We don’t know yet, because their abilities have not been tested yet. Everyone deserves the chance to go to a real school, take exam and become what they want to do. Education is important, because you can do so much more if you have the education to do what you dream of. Why should just boys get the chance to do that?