What We Can Learn From Malala
Happy 2013 Deb,
I hope you had a restful holiday. I've been thinking about Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl from Pakistan who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting the education of young women and girls. Though the injury she suffered was considered life-threatening, she was released from a hospital in Birmingham, England, late last week, and it looks as though she could recover fully.
Her story is truly remarkable and it should be shared with young people all over the world, especially here in the United States. Recognizing that girls throughout the area in Pakistan where she lived were being kept out of school, Malala began writing about the importance of educating girls in a blog for the BBC. She also appeared in a documentary produced by The New York Times on girls' education, which made her even more of a target for those who see the education of woman as a threat to their power.
Malala's bravery in standing up for the rights of girls to be educated got me thinking about how little we do to get
I hope you had a restful holiday. I've been thinking about Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl from Pakistan who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting the education of young women and girls. Though the injury she suffered was considered life-threatening, she was released from a hospital in Birmingham, England, late last week, and it looks as though she could recover fully.
Her story is truly remarkable and it should be shared with young people all over the world, especially here in the United States. Recognizing that girls throughout the area in Pakistan where she lived were being kept out of school, Malala began writing about the importance of educating girls in a blog for the BBC. She also appeared in a documentary produced by The New York Times on girls' education, which made her even more of a target for those who see the education of woman as a threat to their power.
Malala's bravery in standing up for the rights of girls to be educated got me thinking about how little we do to get