Will continue fight until every child goes to school: Malala

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11 Dec 2014, 09:14 am Print

Oslo, Dec 10 (JEN): Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai while receiving her award along with India's Kailash Satyarthi on Wednesday said the world will no more be satisfied with the basic education and that her fight against oppression will continue till every child goes to school.

"The world can not accept that basic education is enough. I will continue this fight till every child goes to school," Yousafzai said at a grand Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo on the death anniversary of its founder Alfred Nobel.

She said: "There is no secondary school in my village, I want to build one for my brothers and sisters."

The 17-year-old Nobel laureate said she will donate the prize money to Malala Fund to build schools in Pakistan.

She asked the world that why it is so hard to provide every child with books.

"Why is that countries which are strong are also strong in starting wars but are weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?" asked she.

The youngest Nobel laureate said the girls in India and Pakistan are deprived of education because of social taboos.

"We can show the world that an Indian and Pakistani can work together for child rights" said she referring to Satyrathi, who shared the Peace Prize with her.

"Let us be the last generation to see empty classroom. Let us be the last one to see child forced into marriage and loose life in war," urged Malala.

Sharing some of her past experience, she said: "Malala means sad but my father made me believe I am the happiest girl in the world."

"I am famous as the girl who was shot by Taliban and others know me as the girl who stood for her rights," she said.

The Pakistani teen said when her voice changed, her priorities were changed.

"I had two options, to remain silent and get killed and to speak up and meet the same fate; I chose the second option. I am a stubborn girl who wants education for every child," she claimed.

"My story is story of many girls. I represent 66 million deprived girls. We still see conflicts where people loose life and children become orphan," said she amid thunderous applauds, adding: "I feel I am the only Nobel laureate who still fight with her younger brother."

Malala also called for an one and final action against deprivation of child from education.

Malala Yousafzai is the youngest ever Nobel laureate who had survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education.

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