UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO

CLAC - Curso de Línguas Aberto à Comunidade

Teacher: Matheus Lage
Student: Gabriela Alana dos Reis
Final Writing Task   
MALALA BIOGRAPHY
Malala Yousafzai is an activist for girls’
education. She was born in Pakistan on
July 12, 1997. Her life was forever
changed at age 15 by a Taliban bullet on 9
October 2012. Malala was shot in the head
by a Taliban gunman while she was en
route home from school. Fazlullah and the
Pakistani Taliban took responsibility for
the attempt on her life. She survived the
attack and was flown from Peshawar to
Birmingham, England, for surgery. Since
then, she has won the Nobel Peace Prize,
traveled all over the world, authored two
books, and started studying at Oxford University. Having received the prize
at the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel laureate. This year in
Brazil Malala said “Education is more than just about learning and reading.
It was about emancipation. It was about empowerment of women,".
Nowadays, at the age of 21. Malala has her own foundation founded in
2013 called “Malala Fund – Working for a world where all girls can learn
and lead”. The foundation supports the work of education champions in
countries like India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria Region, Afghanistan and also
in Brazil where they support school from indigenous Brazilian community.
Malala is an inspiration not only for the women but for the human rights in
general because she is fighting to the education get better around the world.
She talks about how education can change the world and because of this,
suffered an terrorist attack and almost lost her life. Nowadays studying at
the University of Oxford in the U.K she dreams to become Prime Minister
of Pakistan. Does anyone still believe she can't do this?
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Very good and well written text!