Education Report - Malala Yousafzai Speaks at United Nations

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Yousafzai spoke to hundreds of young people at the Nations on July 12. It was her first public since last October, when the schoolgirl was shot in head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan. The UN speech her campaign to education children. On the day she , two groups announced that 57 million children around the are not going to school. The two are Save Children and UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural . A little more than half of those who are going to school are girls. In September of 2012, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced a program to get boy and girl into school by 2015. Malala Yousafzai the goal is possible. In her words, "One child, teacher, one book and one pen can change the Shahid is the executive director of a new program the Malala Fund. She says the 16-year-old is a spokesperson and warrior for girls' rights. The Malala Fund created to support the voices calling for girls' education. actress Angelina Jolie has donated $250,000 to the fund. group called Women in the World donated $150,000. The children served by the Fund are 40 girls in hometown in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. These girls, five to 12, had been working. Shiza Shahid says girls have now stopped working and are going to . Malala Yousafzai is now going to school in England. she talks to the girls in the Swat Valley the computer software program Skype. Girls are also urged tell their own stories online at malalafundorg

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