Yousafzai donates prize money to rebuild schools in Gaza

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Malala YousafzaiMalala Yousafzai, the teenage Nobel Peace Prize winner, is donating a $50,000 award to the United Nations to help rebuild schools in Gaza damaged during the recent conflict with Israel.

The 17-year-old Pakistani activist for girls’ education was collecting another prestigious award, World’s Children’s Prize, in Stockholm when she said that she would be giving away the money.

“Innocent Palestinian children have suffered terribly and for too long,” said Malala. “We must all work to ensure Palestinian boys and girls, and all children everywhere, receive a quality education in a safe environment. Because without education, there will never be peace.”

Malala was shot in the head by Taliban militants who singled out the then 15-year-old for her activism for girls’ rights to attend school in her home country. She has since championed children’s rights to education globally, attracting a worldwide following.

The schools that will be helped by her funds were struck by Israeli shells during a seven-week operation to root out Palestinian extremists. Israel claimed that the militants were using schools and mosques as cover to fire missiles into Palestine, allegations denied by the UN.

“The needs are overwhelming – more than half of Gaza’s population is under 18 years of age,” Malala said in a statement released by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). “They want and deserve quality education, hope and real opportunities to build a future.”

The UN said that her donation would help with the reconstruction of 65 schools damaged during the conflict, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, including more than 500 children, and more than 70 Israelis. Whole neighbourhoods were flattened and almost one-third of Gaza’s population was uprooted.

Pierre Krähenbühl, the UNRWA chief, praised the donation, saying that it would “lift the spirits” of a quarter of a million children at UNRWA schools and boost the morale of the more than 9,000 teaching staff there.

He also praised Malala for her personal courage and her role as “a symbol of the boundless potential that lies within each and every child on Earth”.

He continued: “UNRWA shares with you the profound belief in the importance of education as a means to lift young girls and boys out of isolation, exclusion or oppression.”

Telegraph

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24 responses to “Yousafzai donates prize money to rebuild schools in Gaza”

  1. good soul, i really admire her.
    please take notice not to allow Hamas any lunch pads inside those schools or it’s a waste of money

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      ‘Lunch pads’? tsk … school lunch programmes go along with better brain-work.
      And YES, a ‘Good Soul’ … that’s what got her shot in the first place, since Talibanies can’t rule where people consider each other with any respect.
      Her survival could go down in history as one of the ‘miracles’ … and perhaps she considers it that way. A thought which wouldn’t hurt her, or others.
      ( bonus … she’s a ‘cutie’ as well …)

      1. launch (?)

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          Oh … different concept. :-))))

        2. Soulless and heartless Jew-bag!

          1. humorless and unattached to reality, whatever king of bag you are

      2. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        you and doron make a nice couple.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          But he’s really too far away 😉

    2. Monster!

      1. for admiring Malala or for warning against using those schools for rocket launch pads?
        Oh…you mean you are the monster… you WANT them to use the schools as launch pads, you WANT the children hurt so you can take pics of it and post it.
        you are a monster indeed, why kill another generation? copy paste pics from Syria and Iraq and claim they are from Gaza as some here do

  2. arzatna1 Avatar

    Bravo Malala
    We need more good souls like you in this part of the world
    Thanks a billion

    1. Hear here. Well said.

  3. Now, that’s a true Nobel Prize winner. Unlike the thieving Jewry corrupt varieties that have for long being stealing the prizes.

    God bless and protect you Ms. Malala Yousafzai.

    1. :)))
      right ,cause all this physics and chemistry is all mambo jambo anyway…
      no disrespect to Malala which i truely admire but
      a Muslim woman has to survive an assassination attempt and defend her right to learn
      a jew has to make a huge discovery to get the reward….

      they are not holding you for the highest standards, what you say ,pee cho?

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        arrogant crow

        1. did i speak to you?
          we agreed not to communicate

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Yes true, pee cho

  4. Fauzia45 Avatar

    Great!The greatest battle that can be fought and won and called great ,is the battle against ignorance ,poverty and disease!!!

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      So, what did we think they grabbed them FOR in the first place???????

      1. convert to islam

  5. On the night of November 1, terrorists fired a rocket from Gaza towards the western Negev. Injuries and damages are not reported

  6. Gaza is money pump for liberal fundamentalism. Liberal fundamentalism is defending of rights of cannibals bureaucracy. Girl is fool in corruption now

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