Malala's Experience

    Education in Pakistan for girls is rare, and the Taliban does not help in this cause. They have made it either impossible or illegal for girls to go to school.  Malala is a teenage girl who grew up in Swat, Pakistan.  Her father is an activist for women's rights and he runs a girls school in Swat.  Malala like any other child going to school thought it was something that she was forced to do, until it was taken away by the Taliban.  She then realized how much she valued education and how it was the only thing that could make her a successful women who did not just end up tending for the house like all the women in her family before her.

    

    Malala's father spoke out about the Taliban both to the people in Swat and to the press, he then realized that if Malala came and spoke out also that his cause could be strengthened.  Malala being a strong girl who also had her own opinion went along with the idea and advocated as many places as she could for education for girls and how the Taliban was mistreating the people in her town.  By doing this it made her open to attacks from the Taliban, but her family assumed that since she was both a child and a girl that they would not kill her but they would try and kill her father instead.  They were wrong, in 2012 Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban.  She survived and is using this experience to spread her message even further.  She wants everyone in the world to be aware of the situation in Swat.  She wants every girl to have the right to an education so they can break the mold and do something to help change the world.