A story of Malala’s plight and ambition ... passion and love to be educated and to make the other girls of his community get education. She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger brothers. Editor’s Note: Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai has garnered support all over the world and earned a Nobel Peace Prize last year for her work advocating for girls’ education. Campaigning for girls’ education Malala’s most passionate campaign was against the Taliban’s prohibition of female education. All these girls have dreams, they all want to become something in their lives.” “They just need to [be given the chance] to live up to their potential.” Much of Malala’s passion for education came from her father, who always encouraged her to share her opinions and pursue education. Ever since she was a young child, Yousafzai had been an advocate for girls’ education and always eager to learn. At a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for … I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. Malala Yousafzai Biographical M alala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. So, when I was in Swat Valley, at that time, there were more than 400 schools destroyed. A poignant entry from her blog entitled ‘I may not go to school again’ from January 2009 reads: “I was in a bad mood while going to school because winter vacations are starting from tomorrow. As Malala said ‘I know the importance of education because my pens and books are taken from me by force, but girls of Swat are not afraid of anyone’. Girl Up , a United Nations-sponsored fundraising and awareness campaign, aims to support adolescent girls with health care, safety, and education … There is an argument which is acceptable to academia and global societies that education of girls can silhouette sustainable development and economy of a country. “My purpose is to serve humanity,” Malala once said in an interview, with a maturity well beyond her years. She gained global attention when she survived an assassination attempt at age 15. MALALA YOUSAFZAI: It's a very good question. To join Malala's fight in making education accessible across the globe, consider getting involved in her campaign and with a number of other worthy causes working on empowering women and girls. In her passionate belief in the power of education, Malala takes after her father, Ziauddin. As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai faced the brutality of gender inequality that the Taliban enforced. Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist who, while a teenager, spoke out against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’s ban on the education of girls. On the devastating day of October 9th, 2012, Yousafzai was shot while returning home from school. And women were flogged, because we're not allowed to go to school. The launch of the 2012 Education For All Global Monitoring Report in Islamabad was dedicated to Malala, to emphasize that girls' education is a must if development targets in Pakistan are to be achieved. In 2014 Yousafzai won a share of the Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the youngest Nobel laureate.