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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE winner Malala Yousafzai announced today that she is donating her $50,000 prize money to rebuild a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school damaged during the recent fighting in Gaza.
The donation was announced during Malala’s acceptance of the World’s Children Prize in Stockholm, Sweden.
Malala Fund / TwitterMalala Donates #WorldsChildrensPrize Money to UNRWA to Help Rebuild Damaged School in Gaza http://t.co/5QQ57Cg9yD Photo Cred: @LindaThulin
— Malala Fund (@MalalaFund) October 29, 2014
Her website, I Am Malala, quotes Yousafzai as saying she is donating the money to UNRWA as they are “performing heroic work to serve children in Gaza, in very difficult circumstances”.
She said the children of Gaza “want and deserve quality education, hope and real opportunities to build a future”.
The funding will help rebuild the 65 schools damaged during the recent conflict.
Innocent Palestinian children have suffered terribly and for too long. We must all work to ensure Palestinian boys and girls, and all children everywhere, receive a quality education in a safe environment. Because without education, there will never be peace.Let us stand together for peace and education because together we are more powerful.
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This girl makes me hopeful for us as a race.
What a brilliant young lady , hopefully life will be good to her ..
She’s amazing. Even After everything she has been through she is still so positive. She’s an inspiration for millions of young people around the world…
Hopefully life will be better to her than it has been thus far. Unfortunately I don’t hold much hope – inspirational, trail blazing characters rarely enjoy longevity in life, but they usually make up for it in longevity in history. Not sure which I’d prefer, but I don’t possess her courage so will never be faced with that choice.
So it is true. We all need a hole in the side of our heads.
Maybe you do have the courage @Silentmajority
Hats off, what an amazingly selfless person!
She’s an unbelievably selfless young lady. If there were more like her in the world it could only be a better place
Love this girl.
You complete and utter hypocrite.
You spent the summer months cheerleading for Israel as the slaughter 500 children and destroyed Gaza. Now you ‘love this girl’ because she gives so selflessly to help the victims?
Meanwhile the Nobel peace prize winner of 2009 gives 3 billion dollars to Isreal to be put towards hell fire missiles and bombs
Really wish people would stop bringing up his prize. He only got it because he opposed the Iraq invasion and later rose to power. It was premature, but it was only awarded as a demonstration of the committee’s opposition to the Iraq invasion, which I think was quite honourable even if the recipient was undeserving.
If Obama was a man of honor instead of the yellow bellied psychopath that he is he would have rightfully submitted that prize that he stole.
http://0.tqn.com/y/politicalhumor/1/S/F/1/6/Obamas-Piece-Prize.jpg
I don’t disagree, but it’s Obama to blame for not returning the prize. The prize still holds honour, the committee’s decision to award to Obama wasn’t as bad as it’s made out to be retrospectively, and I just hate to see this international recognition of attempts to build peace in the interests of all humanity so badly devalued by one choice that turned out bad, not even a bad choice.
So rather than enjoying personal gain she is choosing what’s best for her cause, which is a pretty noble cause I think we can all agree. It is good marketing, it is selfless, and it is noble. To the point that I may try keep marketing her and her cause. Let’s give the girl some credit!
Please stop this charade that Obama ‘decides’ anything in US policy. He doesn’t.
ALL the political leaders are there because a small group of very wealthy people paid to put them there.
Obama is an orator salesman/marketer for their interests, nothing more. As was Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan etc.
And in reality, the interests of any of the wealthy factions buying elections in the US are little different from each other.
The interests of Capital owners like themselves come first & foremost.
Secondary issues are which wars of aggression (and which primary Corporate interests profit by them) to prioritise, and what precise degree of oppression to apply to workers & the jobless.
The rest is just empty ‘optics’. The illusion of ‘choice’. Circuses for the people.
And it’s not much better here, or anywhere much. No meaningful democracy.
Among all the lies and false promises of elections, have any of the major parties done anything different? No.
All have been following the neo liberal jackboot political economic ideology for the last 4 decades at least.
The banking pyramid fraud bust in 07/08, and the deliberately, by Austerity, extended & deepened recession since, are both the result of this doctrine, by the wealthy, for the wealthy.
And Qatar and Iran give how many millions to Hamas ?
Odd that she gave money to a Muslim terrorist organisation she got from standing up to another Muslim terrorist organisation.
Cool, fair play.
How can a young person who has experienced so much prejudice and hardship in her life be so wise and balanced? She inspires me so much and is a true leader of this generation
Her Mammy and her Daddy reared her well.
What a standout young lady. Credit to her father also for giving Malala such a progressive upbringing in a patriarchal society where family exerts such huge pressure to conform to the culture.
What a true legend , inspirational and selfless girl !
Definitely a future head of the UN, a role model for every adolescent.
That’s what you call a world leader !
She’s the biggest enemy the Taliban have. Good on her.
A worthy cause.
It’s just a pity that the schools will be blown to bits again in a couple of years.
Don’t criticise the Israelis. They can do no wrong.
That’s if they even get built, Hamas diverted tons of cement for schools/hospitals to build tunnels into Israel.
The UN is now investigating Hamas firing from UN schools and they are also investigating why rockets were stored in schools and when those rockets were found. Why were they handed back to Hamas ?
fair play to her.
Amazon ing young woman. Well done on winning NOBEL peace prize.
My mother always compared me to my ridiculously successful and intelligent best mate to get at me. I have a daughter now and I think I’ve found my inspirational/way to put her down person to compare her to. Could you possibly imagine the sense of pride if this was your daughter (not that I’m not brimming with pride at my own blessing)?
you should be as proud as punch of your own blessing – not having a go but perhaps the words of john Locke are apt -
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
John Locke
I respect your opinions so I presume your offspring is suitably capable !
Just spend as much time building her up as Malalas parents did for her and you won’t ever need to put her down. She us a fantastic female role model too on an international level but don’t forget your daughter needs strong role models of both genders much closer to home.
I think you misunderstood Silent Majority there ..
Why do you feel the need to put your own daughter down?
Nobel Peace Prize.
Israel should be forced to pay for this.
Maybe Qatar who funds Hamas should, Or maybe with the 5 billion donated now to Gaza. Hamas could ACTUALLY use the money to build schools and hospitals; but they won’t. They will build more tunnels into Israel and rearm. Which they have already said try are doing.
The money should have come with some conditions to advance towards peace from both sides
800 houses bulldozed along the border between Egypt and Gaza by the Egyptian government to stop terror smuggling and tunnels between Egypt and Gaza after a suicide bomber blew himself up and killed 33 Egyptian soldiers.
Egypt is now creating a buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt, but you won’t hear much about that here in Ireland as they can’t blame and bash the Israelis.
So she was shot by the Taliban and she gives money without any conditions that this money won’t go to Hamas.
Hamas are as Islamist as ISIS and the Taliban. The only difference between Hamas and ISIS/Taliban is that Hamas use bullets instead of slitting throats.
Noble behaviour from the NOBEL prize winner.
This is less than 10% of her prize money, not all of it as the article suggests.
Stands and
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