Malala Turns 18, And Opens A School For Syrian Refugee Girls
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist and youngest-ever Nobel Peace laureate, celebrated her 18th birthday today by inaugurating a secondary school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, near Syria's border.
he new school will serve more than 200 Syrian girls between ages 14 and 18, according to the Malala Fund, Yousafzai's nonprofit organization, which is helping support the school.
"The new curriculum will enable students to receive their baccalaureate or vocational degrees through the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education or the Syrian equivalent," says a statement on the fund's blog. "Students unable to commit to the four-year baccalaureate training will participate in skills courses intended to help them find work and generate their own incomes."
he's vowed to continue to fight for the rights of children. "I think there's no limit of age ... to speak of children's rights," she said. "My father has been doing it as a teacher and I will continue to do it as a woman. As an adult, you can be the voice of children."
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