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Education Report - Malala Yousafzai Speaks at United Nations
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Yousafzai spoke to hundreds of young people at the
Nations on July 12. It was her first public
since last October, when the schoolgirl was shot in
head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan. The UN speech
her campaign to education children. On the day she
, two groups announced that 57 million children around the
are not going to school. The two are Save
Children and UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural
. A little more than half of those who are
going to school are girls. In September of 2012,
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced a program to get
boy and girl into school by 2015. Malala Yousafzai
the goal is possible. In her words, "One child,
teacher, one book and one pen can change the
Shahid is the executive director of a new program
the Malala Fund. She says the 16-year-old is a
spokesperson and warrior for girls' rights. The Malala Fund
created to support the voices calling for girls' education.
actress Angelina Jolie has donated $250,000 to the fund.
group called Women in the World donated $150,000. The
children served by the Fund are 40 girls in
hometown in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. These girls,
five to 12, had been working. Shiza Shahid says
girls have now stopped working and are going to
. Malala Yousafzai is now going to school in England.
she talks to the girls in the Swat Valley
the computer software program Skype. Girls are also urged
tell their own stories online at malalafundorg
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