Blog 5: Shots fired because of female education.

Maybe this is the last time we will meet and I can ask you how are you? So hello, I hope you are feeling very well, now and always <3.

In this fifth and last blog I chose to talk about one of the people that I admire. I will tell you about a woman who when she was thirteen years old wrote a blog under the pseudonym Gul Makai for the BBC in which she narrated her life under the regime of the Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan. The Taliban banned education for girls; they had beheaded 13 girls, destroyed more than 5 schools and planted bombs as well.

When the military ended the Taliban tyranny in Swat, one woman used her fame to promote the right to education, she is Malala Yousafzai. On October 9, 2012, she was attacked by a Taliban gunman as she was returning home on a school bus (she was only 15 years old!) in Mingora, Pakistan. The attacker shot her in the head and neck in an assassination attempt, just because she supported education for girls. Did she die? she managed to survive and for her struggle, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sometimes I ask myself, what would have happened if I was born in the same place as she was, or what would happen if it happened here in Chile? It probably won't happen, but what if it had happened? Her courage is admirable, even after almost dying and receiving threats, she continues to fight.

If Malala was able to risk her life for education for girls, I wonder what I am doing for education in general. I think about it a lot.... She is an example.

thank you for accompanying this peasant woman. May we continue to read each other on other occasions.

See you soon! :)

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