Motivational story of Malala Yousafzai - MQS

Good day dear readers, welcome to The Motivational Quote and Story. Today we are going to discuss one of the most inspirational stories I have come across in the last decade. This story is going to be about Malala Yousafzai. So without wasting any further time let's drive into the topic, but first below is our motivational quote of the day which is from Malala Yousafzai quotes -

“I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.” - Malala Yousafzai, the famous human right and female education activist from Pakistan.

Malala Yousafzai Biography - 

Many of you probably already know about her, but to those who don’t, here is a short story about Malala,

The early life of Mala Yousafzai - 

Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997, in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( Pakistan), is in a middle-class Pashtun family. From childhood, she was deeply influenced by her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, who himself is an educational activist. At an early age, she fearlessly started activism along with her father, on the right to education for children and women.

Malala Yousafzai education and early activism -

As a student Malala was pretty bright, she started her schooling in Khushal Girls High School and College in Mingora. When she was 11 years old, Malala started blogging about her life and her schooling on the BBC Urdu website. Aamer Ahmed Khan, from the BBC Urdu, came up with this idea to recognize the rising inspiration of the Pakistani Taliban in the Swat Valley. Being afraid, when none participated to do the blogging, Ziauddin Yousafzai(Malala’s father) asked her to do the job. Initially, Malala started vlogging by the name “Gul Makai” to protect her identity. During this time the situation of the valley became worse and strict Islamic law was imposed in the valley by Maulana Fazlullah lead TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan). As a result, all the girls were prohibited from going to schools, and all the girl's schools were shut down. Because of this volatile situation, Malala and her family had to leave the valley for some time.

They returned when the tension eases a bit. Malala finished her blog in 2009. Once her blogging was over Malala worked with The New York Times famous reporter Adam Ellick and published a documentary named "Class Dismissed" for The New York Times. She did her second documentary movie with Adam named "A Schoolgirl's Odyssey". both of the documentaries were published on "The New York Times" website in 2009. During this time Malala became a household name and continued her appearance in various TV shows and debates, where she openly raised her voice on the topic of education and women's rights. In the year 2009, she also met with Richard Holbrook, the US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan to get help for the right to education for the girl child in Pakistan. 

Attack on Malala and her survival -

Her popularity skyrocketed when she received Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace prize from Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani. This "National Youth Peace prize" is later renamed "The National Malala Peace Prize". As Malala became famous by the days, she became one of the prime targets of Terrorist organizations. At the age of 15, on 9th Oct 2012, Malala was attacked by a gunman when she was returning home from an exam. She was shot in her head and got severely injured. As a result, she was taken to the nearest military hospital in Peshawar. After several hours of surgery doctors successfully removed the bullet from her spine. Malala got her further treatment from Queen Elizabeth Hospital,  where she recovered from a coma. Later TTP claimed responsibility for this attack on Malala.

Post of this horrible incident, Malala, and her family shifted to Birmingham where she continued her studies, at the same time Malala also received all kinds of media attention from around the world, which helped her at the cause. She fearlessly continued her work in the field of the right to education for women. Her activation gained further momentum when the united nation’ special envoy for Global Education stood beside her, apart from this Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari also helped Malala's cause by announcing a Ten Million Doller fund to support the right to education for the girls.

Rewards and recognizations - 

To this date, Malala received a lot of awards and recognizations for her work such as the United Nations human rights prize, which Malala received in the year 2013, in the same year Malala was recognized among the most influential people of 2013 by the Times Magazine. in the year 2014 she became the youngest person to receive the prestigious Liberty Medal for her work.  In the same year, Malala again became the youngest person to co-receive the Nobel peace prize for her activism in the field of human rights and education.

Books by Malala Yousafzai-

Malala as a part of her Right to medication activism wrote books such as "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban ". This book was published in 2013 which was written in collaboration with Malala and Christina Lamb who was the foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times. Apart from this Malala also summarized her childhood memories in a beautiful picture book which she published by the name "Malala's Magic pencil". This book was published in the year 2017.

In the year 2020 Malala finished her education at Oxford University. Malala was a student of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). Currently, she is actively working on her movement for the right to education at a global level.

Conclusion - 

Malala Yousafazi's story is an example where we can learn that age is not a decisive factor when you are trying to do something good for society and there is no force capable enough to dominate the unconquerable courage of a human soul. If we can learn this virtue the world will become a better place for all of us.