


The Taliban told people from Pakistan that they should not let girls go to school anymore. Malala’s mother’s name was Toorpekai Yousafzai and she cared for Malala and her siblings. Her father’s name was Ziauddin Yousafzai and he was a schoolmaster at a local school and someone who believed strongly in his ideas that all children should go to school. Malala lived at home with her father and mother when she was a girl.

In Pakistan at the time that Malala was a young girl, a very strict government called the Taliban tried to take control. A government is a group of people that make decisions about how a country will work and the rules that the people in the country will follow. Unfortunately, the town and the country started to change when a new government took control of the country. People from around the country would visit the town for summer festivals. For the first few years of her life, Malala’s hometown was a popular place for people to visit on vacation. Malala was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. Malala was brave and strong and she stood up for what she believed and as a result, she ended up changing her country and the world. She was only 11 years old when she started to get noticed for standing up for girls’ rights. This was the experience of a young girl named Malala Yousafzai. But you are a girl and it is not allowed. They think that boys and girls should both go to school and they want you to go to school too. It is a poor country with war and where girls are not allowed to go to school.
