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7 Fakta ‘Short & Sweet’ Malala Yousafzai

 Malala Yousafzai dilahirkan pada tahun 1997, seorang gadis Pakistan yang pernah menggemparkan dunia dengan percubaan pembunuhan oleh pihak Taliban semasa pulang dari sekolah.

1. Malala Yousafzai pernah menggunakan nama samaran Gul Makai semasa menulis blog tentang kehidupan di bawah Taliban. Beliau menulis blog untuk BBC pada ketika umur 11 tahun. Bayangkan beliau masih kanak-kanak lagi pada ketika ini. 


2. Pada tahun 2012, dalam perjalanan pulang menaiki bas selepas mengambil peperiksaan di sekolahnya, Malala telah ditembak oleh Taliban bersama 2 kanak-kanak perempuan lain. 

Beliau dikehendaki dibunuh oleh Taliban kerana di bawah pemerintahan Taliban ketika itu, Malala kuat mempromosikan betapa pentingnya pendidikan untuk remaja perempuan. 

Kanak-kanak perempuan pula tidak dibenarkan ke sekolah dan belajar.


3. Malala ditembak di kepala dan leher dalam cubaan membunuhnya, namun terselamat dalam insiden yang mengerikan itu. Dia seorang yang kuat dan kental jiwa.

 Dengan rawatan dan pemulihan yang baik, hanya selepas 9 bulan daripada peristiwa hitam itu, beliau berucap di United Nations pada umurnya 16 tahun. 


4. Bukan itu sahaja, pada umur beliau 17 tahun, beliau penerima anugerah Nobel Prize kerana memperjuangkan hak wanita dan kanak-kanak dalam mendapatkan pendidikan. 

Penghormatan Nobel Prize ini meletakkan Malala Yousafzai sebaris nama pejuang keamanan dan hak seperti Nelson Mandela dan Mahatma Gandhi.


5. Beliau ialah aktivis Pakistan yang memperjuangkan hak asasi wanita dan kanak-kanak terhadap pendidikan untuk mencapai potensi mereka melalui Malala Fund.

Beliau menerbitkan buku bertajuk ‘I am Malala’ dan mempunyai dokumentari mengenai dirinya bertajuk ‘He Named Me Malala’.


6. Ketika dunia berhadapan dengan pandemik Covid-19, beliau berjaya menghabiskan pengajiannya di Oxford Universiti pada tahun 2020 ketika berumur 22 tahun. 


7. Malala menyatakan beliau akan terus memperjuangkan pendidikan, hak sama rata dan hak wanita dalam perjuangan sepanjang hidupnya.


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