Malala Yousafzai gives $50,000 to reconstruction of Gaza schools
Source: The Guardian
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education campaigner shot by the Taliban, has donated $50,000 (nearly £31,000) towards the reconstruction of schools in Gaza.
The Nobel peace prize winner, speaking after receiving the World Childrens Prize for the rights of the child in Marienfred, Sweden, on Wednesday, said the money would be channelled through the United Nations relief agency UNRWA to help rebuild 65 schools in the Palestinian territory.
Malala, who now lives in the UK and has her own fund to help small-scale organisations in a number of countries, including Pakistan, told journalists that children in Gaza had suffered from conflicts and war. The money would help children get quality education and continue their life, knowing they were not alone and that people were supporting them, she said.
She is the first person to receive the childrens prize and the Nobel in the same year. The Sweden-based organisers of the childrens prize said millions of children around the world had voted for Malala.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/malala-yousafzai-reconstruction-gaza-schools
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Archae
(46,344 posts)Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)the terror tunnels will start again.
Those, the rocket launchers in the playground and on the roof, the vicious anti-Jew propaganda in the classrooms...
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Archae
(46,344 posts)I don't know of any "Christian" groups wanting to build tunnels under a school, set up rocket launchers or pipe anti-Jew propaganda into any schools.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)jail and murder 10x the number of people with black skin for the same offenses as we do people with white skin?
That you don't know any, I believe. That you don't know of them may just mean you need to get out more.
I think you have blinders on. Israel can stop their occupation of Palestinian land anytime and come to an agreement. I have no use for Israel, just like I have no use for the KKK and other hate groups, that is true. They are no different in their treatment of the Palestinians than we ARE to native people or to people of color.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)and people respond by dehumanizing them.
mahannah
(893 posts)rurallib
(62,445 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)We are all proud of her.
okasha
(11,573 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)The world needs more Malalas!