Malala Yousafzai, the world’s youngest Nobel laureate, and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, will travel to the United States next month to attend a fundraising gala for Pakistani musician Shehzad Roy’s education programs Zindagi Trust and Durbeen.
The father-daughter duo, famed for their global activism for girls’ education, will promote Roy’s educational initiatives on March 1 and 2 in Florida and Texas, respectively.
Malala has become a global icon of defiance to the Taliban’s attempts to deny women’s education and other rights. In 2014, at the age of 17, she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in appreciation of her work for children’s rights.
Malala and her father will support both initiatives that assist young girls taught at Zindagi Trust-adopted schools as well as Durbeen, its sister organisation focused on teacher training.
Roy, on the other hand, will perform live for the gala audience to promote the cause of furthering Pakistan’s two educational projects for a brighter future.
Zindagi Trust has not only provided a model of holistic education in its government schools, but has also achieved success through state-level policy changes, such as the prohibition of corporal punishment and the provision of life skills-based education to millions of children in Pakistan.
