By Sorijah McDermid
Malala Yousafzai is from Pakistan and grew up in a small village mingora, she also lives in Birmingham England she moved there in 2013 and fights for education. This is important to people who don't have education and who may be in a place where the female gender does not have as much access to learning have an activist working to help them.
She began this work around the age of fifteen allowing her to become one of the youngest peace prize winners at the age of 17 in 2014 and making her a youth advocate. She began her work during the time when she was still in school learning.
In 2012 she became a symbol for female advocacy and was widely known. She used her voice through many ways, some examples of this were speeches. She did many public speaking activities bringing awareness to these world problems. She also used public platforms online to speak about these issues.
Malala is a co-founder of the Malala Fund allowing her to work to create a world where education is a right and working towards it being accessible for everyone no matter who they are. They work to raise awareness and invest in education advocates. She mainly does work for secondary education which includes Middle School, and High School.
Some places she has done work include Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Pakistan.
Malala speaks out about harmful groups and things including Taliban, and violence.
More about the fund is that you can donate to the Malala Fund on the website. Currently her work is mostly with the fund, but she has done many things with her advocacy and works towards a greater future, at only 28 years old.
A quote representing her work was “One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.” It is a quote from Malala showing her passion for education for all. This information shows how Malala has worked for education justice and for everyone to have fair access. And she still works through her fund.