Malala Yousufzai, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner, landed in Karachi on Tuesday to travel to Pakistan’s flood-stricken regions. Yousufzai is being closely guarded while travelling with her parents.
A Nobel Prize winner who supports girls’ education is currently in the flood-affected areas to raise awareness of the damage caused by climate change in the South Asian nation.The monsoon rains in Pakistan this season were more than usual, resulting in extensive flooding that inundated a third of the nation and destroyed standing crops, roads, and rail tracks in Sindh and Balochistan.
Yousufzai is expected to donate money from the Malala Fund for flood relief.During the first week of September, the Malala Fund donated emergency relief funds to the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
The IRC will use the funds to meet the psychological needs of the girls and women in flood-affected Sindh and Balochistan. The money will also be utilised to offer urgent educational services, which will help make sure that girls finish their education.
With assistance from the Malala Fund, ten damaged government schools for girls will be renovated.For the second time, the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner is in Pakistan.Yousafzai, who was 15 years old at the time, was shot in the head quite closely by Taliban gunmen as she was coming from school in Swat Valley.
After suffering a gunshot wound, she was brought to the military hospital in Peshawar before being sent to London for further treatment.Strong international criticism was levelled at the shooting.
As a symbol of defiance against the Taliban’s attempts to deny women the access to an education and other rights, she has become well-known on a global scale.In 2014, Yousafzai, then 17 years old, became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her efforts for children’s rights.
