Inspiration for October 2013- Malala

INSPIRATION-OCT 2013

MALALA

She said people did not have to do anything extra for their daughters, "but don't clip their wings...let them fly... and give them the same rights as your sons....give them a chance to be a human being." When World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, a physician by profession, asked her why she wanted to enter public life, Malala replied, "Because a doctor can only help someone who has been shot. If I become a politician, I can help make a tomorrow where there are no more cases of people being shot."

 Malala is a young girl and a student of school who worked hard back in 2008 to 2012 when the Taliban was ruling her region. She spoke openly about them and fight for getting the children and girls' rights back. Actually, Taliban banned girls from going to school, and she was a student at that time, thus her educational career also affected, so she wrote a diary for BBC on this cruelty. That diary was firstly published with a fake name "Gul Makai" and later on when peace restored in Swat, she appeared to be the girl who wrote that diary, she after that worked more openly for children rights in the region and in the province of KPK as well in all over Pakistan. 

Yousafzai was planning to organize the Malala Education Foundation, which would help poor girls go to school by 2012.

On 9 October 2012, when she was coming back from her school to her home, there were 2 gun men who stopped the bus in the way and one of them asked the other girls in the bus; "Who is Malala among you?", and someone replied to them that Malala is this one, and he opened fire on Malala, Malala was fired 2 times to confirm that she has been killed. But its almost an amazing story that how Malala survived with the help of doctors and with prayers of all people in the world. 

Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 into a Sunni Muslim family of Pashtun ethnicity. She was given her first name Malala (meaning "grief stricken") after Malalai of Maiwand, a famous Pashtun poet and warrior woman from southern Afghanistan.Her last name, Yousafzai, is that of a large Pashtun tribal confederation that is predominant in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where she grew up. At her house in Mingora, she lived with her two younger brothers, her parents, and two pet chickens.

Yousafzai was educated in large part by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who is a poet, school owner, and an educational activist himself, running a chain of schools known as the Khushal Public School. She once stated to an interviewer that she would like to become a doctor, though later her father encouraged her to become a politician instead. Ziauddin referred to his daughter as something entirely special, permitting her to stay up at night and talk about politics after her two brothers had been sent to bed.

Yousafzai started speaking about education rights as early as September 2008, when her father took her to Peshawar to speak at the local press club. "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" Yousafzai asked her audience in a speech covered by newspapers and television channels throughout the region.

On 3 January 2009, Yousafzai's first entry was posted to the BBC Urdu blog. She would hand-write notes and then pass them on to a reporter who would scan and e-mail them.The blog records Yousafzai's thoughts during the First Battle of Swat, as military operations take place, fewer girls show up to school, and finally, her school shuts down.

In Mingora, the Taliban had set an edict that no girls could attend school after 15 January 2009. The group had already blown up more than a hundred girls’ schools. The night before the ban took effect was filled with the noise of artillery fire, waking Yousafzai multiple times. The following day, Yousafzai also read for the first time excerpts from her blog that had been published in a local newspaper.

Medical treatment

After the shooting, Yousafzai was airlifted to a military hospital in Peshawar, where doctors were forced to begin operating after swelling developed in the left portion of her brain, which had been damaged by the bullet when it passed through her head. After a three-hour operation, doctors successfully removed the bullet, which had lodged in her shoulder near her spinal cord. The day following the attack, doctors performed a decompressive craniectomy, in which part of the skull is removed to allow room for the brain to swell.

On 11 October 2012, a panel of Pakistani and British doctors decided to move Yousafzai to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi. Mumtaz Khan, a doctor, said that she had a 70% chance of survival. Doctors reduced Yousafzai's sedation on 13 October, and she moved all four limbs.

Offers to treat Yousafzai came from around the world. On 15 October, Yousafzai travelled to the United Kingdom for further treatment, approved by both her doctors and family.

Yousafzai had come out of her coma by 17 October 2012, was responding well to treatment, and was said to have a good chance of fully recovering without any brain damage. Later updates on 20 and 21 October stated that she was stable, but was still battling an infection. By 8 November, she was photographed sitting up in bed.

On 3 January 2013, Yousafzai was discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to continue her rehabilitation at her family's temporary home in the West Midlands. She had a five-hour operation on 2 February to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing, and was reported in stable condition.

United Nations petition

On 15 October 2012, UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown, a former British Prime Minister, visited Yousafzai while she was in the hospital, and launched a petition in her name and "in support of what Malala fought for". Using the slogan "I am Malala", the petition's main demand was that there be no children left out of school by 2015, with the hope that "girls like Malala everywhere will soon be going to school". Brown said he would hand the petition to President Zardari in Islamabad in November.

The petition contains three demands:

·  We call on Pakistan to agree to a plan to deliver education for every child.

·  We call on all countries to outlaw discrimination against girls.

·  We call on international organizations to ensure the world's 61 million out-of-school children are in education by the end of 2015.

Malala Day

On 12 July 2013, Yousafzai's 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education. The UN dubbed the event "Malala Day".It was her first public speech since the attack, leading the first ever Youth Takeover of the UN, with an audience of over 500 young education advocates from around the world.

"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born ... I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I'm here to speak up for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists.

Awards and honours :

Yousafzai has been awarded the following national and international honours:

·  International Children's Peace Prize nominee, 2011,National Youth Peace Prize, 2011,Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan's third-highest civilian bravery award, October 2012,Foreign Policy magazine top 100 global thinker, November 2012,Time magazine Person of the Year shortlist, December 2012,Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice, November 2012, Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action, December 2012, Top Name of 2012 in Annual Survey of Global English, January 2013^, Simone de Beauvoir Prize, January 2013, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, March 2013, Doughty Street Advocacy award of Index on Censorship, March 2013, Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of the UK National Union of Teachers, March 2013^[95], Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, Global Trailblazer, April 2013, One of Time's "100 Most Influential People In The World", April 2013, Premi International Catalunya Award of Catalonia, May 2013, Annual Award for Development of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), June 2013^[International Campaigner of the Year, 2013 Observer Ethical Awards, June 2013, Tipperary International Peace Award, Ireland Tipperary Peace Convention, August 2013, International Children’s Peace Prize, KidsRights, 2013, Portrait of Yousafzai by Jonathan Yeo displayed at National Portrait Gallery, London, Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International 2013 Clinton Global Citizen Awards from Clinton Foundation, Harvard Foundation’s Peter Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University, 2013 Anna Politkovskaya Award – Reach All Women In War, 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – Awarded by the European Parliament