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Just Keep Going
- Daisy Mae
- Mar 21, 2016
- 1 min read
A girl with a big story and bigger dreams
''A year after being shot, Pakistan's teenage champion of girls' education has been awarded the EU Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought at a ceremony in Strasbourg.
The title of her book speaks for itself: "I am Malala: The Girl who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban."
On the cover there is a portrait of the teenager wearing a headscarf. She has a serious expression on her face. On Tuesday, October 8, the autobiography of Malala Yousafzai was published - one year after she was attacked by the Taliban in her home town in Pakistan.
On October 9, 2012, Malala was on a bus heading home after school with friends. She had been well-known in her native Swat Valley and had been a thorn in the Taliban's side. The daughter of a teacher, she had openly advocated education for girls - despite a ban placed by the Taliban. On that Tuesday after school, a Taliban gunman stormed into the bus, asking, "who is Malala?" and shot her in the head...''
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