Birthday girl Malala opens school for Syrian refugees

[yuiyoshida]

BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon (Reuters) — Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in “books not bullets.”

Malala became a symbol of defiance after she was shot on a school bus in Pakistan 2012 by the Taliban for advocating girls’ rights to education. She continued campaigning and won the Nobel in 2014.

“I decided to be in Lebanon because I believe that the voices of the Syrian refugees need to be heard and they have been ignored for so long,” Malala told Reuters in a schoolroom decorated with drawings of butterflies.

The Malala Fund, a nonprofit organization that supports local education projects, provided most of the funding for the school, set up by Lebanon’s Kayany Foundation in the Bekaa Valley, close to the Syrian border.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002286839

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. excellent

[KamaAina]

2. Hau'oli la hanau, E Malala!

[stevenleser]

3. Malala rocks! nt