Shahid: Malala's story humanized the crisis of 130M out-of-school girls
Shiza Shahid · HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid · Sep 8, 2022 · at 16:42
Shiza Shahid, co-founder of the Malala Fund and Our Place, reflects on the global response after Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating for female education.
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“I really think just, you know, the world was shocked that in the 21st century a girl could be shot simply for wanting to go to school, and it took this issue of girls' education, one hundred and thirty million girls who are out of school, and it humanized it, and it made it personal, and that's sort of the power story.”
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