The Extraordinary Life of Malala Yousafzai

Malala’s father worked as a teacher and was passionate about education, and her mother always encouraged Malala to do well at school.

Malala loved learning about everything, from physics to politics, and she was almost always top of her class.

When she was young, her days were filled with laughter. She often played beside the spectacular waterfalls and on the hills of Swat with her friends and two younger brothers. But when a violent group of EXTREMISTS саmе to her valley and a war began to rage on her doorstep everything changed.

EXTREMIST: someone who has taken their political or religious views to a dangerous level. 

The violent group of extremists who came to Malala’s valley were a branch of the TALIBAN, who wanted to stop women from voting, going to school and even leaving the house alone.

Malala and her father refused to remain silent about the INJUSTICE they were facing. They spoke up bravely, and Malala continued to go to school in secret, hiding her books and wearing her normal clothes instead of her uniform every day. When the Pakistani army drove the Taliban out, Malala and the other girls were finally able to return to school and continue with their lives, and it wasn’t long before Malala was known all over the world for her bravery in the face of the terror she had lived through.

She continued CAMPAIGNING for the education of women – which made the Taliban want to silence her even more. She was returning home from school one day when she was shot by two men from the Taliban, and she was taken unconscious to hospital.

CAMPAIGNING: fighting for something you believe is important.

After miraculously surviving the shooting, this brave, determined young girl went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.