Badass Birthday
On this date, in 1997, in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai was born.
You may not know who she is. Let me tell you some things she's done.
-Pakistani female eduation activist.
-Producer of films and television about positive female role models and issues.
-The youngest Nobel lauerate in history, having recieved the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17.
-Only the second Pakistani to recieve ANY Nobel Prize.
-Human rights activist for women and children
-Co-Founder of the Malala Fund, a non-profit organization
-At 11, wrote a blog of the BBC under a pseudonym detailing life under Pakistani Taliban who had taken over the region she lived in.
-At the age of 15 was the targer of an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She was shot in the head and hospitalized for quite some time, but she did recover. And when she had, she resumed the same work she had been doing before.
These are just some of the things she's accomplished in less than 30 years.
Surely just what I listed above qualifies for a Badass!
POLT
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