DAVOS: Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai stressed collective responsibility to promote education of young girls across the globe.
While speaking the World Economic Forum session titled ‘An Insight, An Idea with Malala Yousafzai’, she admitted that the fight for female education was not a single person’s job.
“Not one person will be able to do this. I alone can’t send all girls to schools. What I can do is send as many girls as possible. I try to reach out as many girls as possible.”
It is also important to remind everyone that they can all play a role in this struggle. “This is a responsibility we should all realise.”
“Imagine how many girls we lose daily? Recently, I went to Lebanon and I met female Syrian refugees. I asked the girls what they want to become when they grow up, one of the girls said she wants to be an architect. I asked her, ‘why do you want to be an architect’. She replied that when she was leaving Syria, she saw so much destruction and devastation. She decided that she will rebuild her country once she goes back.”
“You have to speak out for those girls. They are a resource for their community. If we don’t raise our voices then these girls will never be able to have a voice or rights.”
Published in Daily Times, January 26th 2018.
