Pakistani Malala Yousafzai is winner of Gleitsman Award 2018 by Harvard University

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai won 2018 Gleitsman Award by Harvard University: Details, Achievements, Highlights

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai recently on 7th December 2018, was honored by Harvard University in the United States for her work promoting girls’ education.

Malala Yousafzai (21-year-old) received the 2018 Gleitsman Award from Harvard’s Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The award provides $125,000 for activism that has improved quality of life around the world.

About Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 in Mingora city in Swat province of Pakistan. At the age of 11, she had caught international attention as female education activist after writing for the BBC about life under the Taliban in Pakistan under pseudonym Gul Makai.

Her campaign had led to Taliban assassination attempt near that left her severely wounded after she was shot in the head in 2012. Later she had founded nonprofit Malala Fund to support her work. At present, she is a student at Oxford University in England.

Awards and Honours:

Malala Yousafzai at the age of 17 years, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 when she was recognized for her global work supporting schooling for all children. She had shared this award with Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.

Malala Yousafzai also has been honored with National Youth Peace Prize (2011), Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice (2012), Simon de Beauvoir Prize (2013), Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (2013), Anna Politkovskaya Award (2013).

United Nations in her honor has declared 12 July as ‘Malala Day’.