‘An experiment to see whether an online video could make an obscure

warlord infamous’

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not [only] that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They

make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Adichie, 2009

Malala Yousafzai

‘She was an ordinary girl…’

• Adolescent living in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan

• Attended her father’s private high school for girls

• Blogged about Taliban control of Swat Valley in 2009, especially the order to close all of the schools

‘…but on camera, extraordinary’

• Time Magazine’s 2013 list of 100 most influential people in the world

• UN Special Envoy for Education (Gordon Brown), leading activities for Malala Day

‘We are all Malala’

• In Pakistan: 5.1 million children are out of school—the second-highest number in the world—and two-thirds of them are girls

• In the world: Girls make up more than 70% of the 125 children in the world, who have no school to attend

‘She paid a terrible price, but the price she paid may have awoken the world

in a way that nothing else has’

Malala DayJuly 12th 2013

Activities planned in:London, New York, Paris…

…a village, town or city near you?