Malala Fund
Malala Fund is an international, non-profit organization that fights for girls' education. It was co-founded by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate and her father, Ziauddin.[1][2][3] The stated goal of the organization is to ensure 12 years of free, safe and quality education for every girl.[4] As of January 2019, the organization has 24 staff and receives grants of roughly $4 million per year.[5]
Motto | Working for a world where every girl can learn and lead. |
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Formation | 2013 |
Founders | Malala Yousafzai Ziauddin Yousafzai |
Type | 501(c)(3) charitable organization |
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Focus | Girls' education, education rights |
Headquarters | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Website | www |
History
The first contribution to Malala Fund in 2013 came from Angelina Jolie who gave a $200,000 personal donation, which was used to fund girls' education where Malala is from in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.[6][7]
In 2014, Malala Fund helped build an all-girls secondary school in rural Kenya[8] and provided school supplies and continued education in Pakistan for children fleeing conflict in North Waziristan and the floods of 2014.[9]
In 2015, when the government of Sierra Leone closed schools due to the Ebola epidemic, Malala Fund bought radios and created classrooms for 1,200 marginalized girls to continue their education.[10][11] Building on Malala's advocacy for girls in Nigeria,[12] Malala Fund pledged full scholarships to Chibok schoolgirls freed from the abduction by Boko Haram to complete their secondary education.[13] On 12 July 2015, her 18th birthday, Malala announced funding through Malala Fund of a secondary school in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, near the Syrian border, for Syrian refugees.[14][15]
In 2016, Malala visited Dadaab Refugee Camp for her birthday and attended the graduation of refugee girls from a mentorship program on leadership and life skills supported by Malala Fund.[16] In December 2016, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $4 million to help Malala Fund launch the Gulmakai Network to support education champions in developing countries.[17][18]
In 2017, Malala Fund significantly expanded investment projects that Newsweek described as, "education advocacy programs run by local people — the kind Yousafzai and her father led when they lived in Pakistan — and will disburse up to $10 million a year over the next decade."[19] New grants included a project in Afghanistan to support the recruitment and training of teachers to fill spots in the country's overcrowded classrooms[20][21] and supporting local activists in Nigeria to campaign for increasing public education from 9 years to 12 years.[22]
In 2018, Apple Inc. partnered with Malala Fund to fund expansion to India and Latin America and provide technology, curriculum assistance and policy research with a goal of educating more than 100,000 girls.[23][24][25][26][27] In addition, a connection will be established in Brazil with the Apple Developer Academy.[28]
Programs
Gulmakai Network
Named after the pseudonym Malala used as an anonymous blogger when she was 11, the Gulmakai Network is a group of education champions and programs supported by Malala Fund.[29] The current priority countries for Malala Fund are Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria Region.[30][31] One of the Gulmakai champions for Pakistan is Gulalai Ismail, chairperson of Aware Girls an organisation with which Yousafzai trained in 2011.[32][33]
Research and Advocacy
Malala, Ziauddin, Malala Fund staff, members of the Gulmakai Network and young education activists participate in conferences and meet with political leaders to advocate for girls' education.[34][35][36][37] The advocacy goals are to increase funding for girls' education[38] and to remove the barriers keeping girls from school, such as early marriage, child labor, conflict and gender discrimination.[39] Malala Fund has conducted research on the impact of girls' secondary education in collaboration with Brookings Institution, World Bank and Results for Development.
In June 2018, Malala Fund helped secure a $2.9 billion commitment for girls' education from G7 countries and the World Bank.[40][41]
Girls' Voices
In July 2018, Malala Fund launched Assembly, a digital publication with stories by girls, for girls.[42][43] Malala Fund won the 2020 Webby Award for Email Newsletter in the category Web.[44]
In popular culture
The organization was featured in the 2015 American documentary film, He Named Me Malala, and Malala's autobiography, I Am Malala.
References
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- Leber, Jessica (1 September 2015). "How Teenage Activist Malala Yousafzai Is Turning Her Fame Into A Movement". Fast Company. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- Ong, Thuy (22 January 2018). "Apple partners with Malala Yousafzai's Malala Fund to help advance girls' education". The Verge. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- Perkins, Miki (5 January 2019). "Malala's new book brings voices of world's displaced to the fore". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- Frith, Maxine (5 April 2013). "Angelina Jolie Donates $200,000 To Malala Fund". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- Barker, Faye (5 April 2013). "Malala announces first grant from fund set up in her name". ITV News. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- Smith, Hayden (5 July 2014). "Malala takes education bid to Kenya". Times of Malta. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- "Malala Fund Giving 2014: Who You Helped Support". Malala Fund. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- Poon, Linda (18 February 2015). "Now This Is An Example Of Truly Educational Radio". National Public Radio. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- "World Radio Day". Malala Fund. 9 February 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- Umar, Haruna (19 July 2017). "Malala speaks out against Boko Haram in Nigeria". USA Today. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- Levs, Josh (13 April 2015). "Malala's letter to Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls: 'solidarity, love, and hope'". CNN. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
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- Opile, Caroline (12 July 2016). "Malala Celebrates her 19th Birthday with Refugees in Dadaab". UNHCR. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
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- Yousafzai, Ziauddin (9 October 2017). "Teachers are nation-builders. Developing countries must invest in them properly". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- "INTERVIEW: In fighting for girls' education, UN advocate Malala Yousafzai finds her purpose". UN News. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
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- Carbone, Christopher (23 January 2018). "Apple teams up with Malala Fund to educate more than 100,000 girls worldwide". Fox News. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- "Apple teams with Malala Fund to support girls' education". Apple Inc. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- Dickey, Megan Rose (22 January 2018). "Apple partners with Malala Fund to help girls receive quality education". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- Dickey, Megan Rose (22 July 2018). "Apple and Malala Fund take new step into Latin America to give girls a full education". Independent. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- Van Oot, Torey (9 May 2017). "What Happens When The World's Most Famous Teen Activist Grows Up?". Refinery29. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- "Gulmakai Network | Malala Fund". www.malala.org. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- Carolina Moreno, Ana (16 July 2018). "A estratégia de Malala para colocar 130 milhões de meninas na escola". O Globo. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- Plackis-Cheng, Paksy. "Aware Girls". Impactmania. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
- Briggs, Billy. "The Peshawar women fighting the Taliban: 'We cannot trust anyone'". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
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- "15 women speak up on the power of education". Global Partnership for Education. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- Rolenc, Sharon (3 October 2016). "From Yemen to the United Nations: St. Kate's student advocates for women's education". St. Catherine University News. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- Royle, Taylor; Johnston, Barry (21 June 2017). "G20 Will Never Get Women to Work Without Investing in Girls' Education". News Deeply. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- Watson, Emma (8 March 2018). "Emma Watson and Malala Yousafzai: two activists on how empowering women begins with education". Vogue Australia. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- "$3 billion pledged for girls education at G7, delighting Malala". The Economic Times. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- Mohamed, Farah. "MALALA FUND ADVOCACY: The key to unlocking girls' potential". The Global Governance Project. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- "Assembly Issue Archive". Malala Fund. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- Seshadri, Aditi (6 July 2018). "Malala Yousafzai's global non-profit launches a new digital publication". Vogue India. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- Kastrenakes, Jacob (20 May 2020). "Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards". The Verge. Retrieved 22 May 2020.