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Malala To Donate $50,000 Children's Prize To Gaza Schools
[IsraelTimes] Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu... said Wednesday she is giving her entire winnings from a children's rights award to help rebuild schools in war-ravaged Gazoo. The UN Paleostinian refugee agency UNRWA, which has launched a massive $1.6 billion appeal for aid for Gazoo, said she would be donating all $50,000 of her World's Children's Prize. "This money will totally go to the rebuilding of schools for children in Gazoo, so I think it will definitely help those children to continue their education, to get quality education," the 17-year-old Pak told a presser in Sweden at the awards ceremony. "We already know how children have suffered in Gazoo from conflicts and war, so those children need our support right now, because they are going through many difficult situations." The money will be donated via UNRWA to help rebuild 65 schools in the Gazoo Strip. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-30 |
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