Malala Yousafzai: Leadership, Courage, and Determination
It’s hard to choose a specific leader I admire the most, but if I had to choose one, it would be Malala Yousafzai. From what I read from her autobiography, I greatly admire her acts of leadership, courage and determination for change. She may not be as known, but her story and her beliefs are just as great as those we look up to today, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and so on. She is a young Pashtun girl from Pakistan who is suppressed by the Taliban from getting an education because she is a girl. Like most all women in Pakistan, they are not given the basic freedoms that men have. Thus, when Malala was speaking out about her right to attend school, a Taliban fighter went onto her school bus and shot her point blank. Miraculously, she survived, and was taken to the U.K. Once recovered, she still fought for women’s rights and lead peace protests and at the age of sixteen won the noble peace prize.
Under the circumstances that she dealt with everyday, she still spoke out about her belief of being given the right to have an education, a place where the Taliban basically has complete control under a corrupt government and raids the villages almost every week. That is why I respect her so much, she is a young women who already has the determination of a leader and isn’t afraid of putting herself at risk in order for her voice to be heard.
One thing that I wish I could change about our school is creating an opportunity for more hands on work relating to clubs that help our community. For example, I think that it would be an amazing idea to have a club that went to homeless shelters around the area such as Lazarus house or even animal shelters. I feel as though making a direct impact on others is more life changing than raising money by itself. There are so many students in this school who may not be very involved, but I believe that with greater influence from others we can create an environment where students feel as though it’s easy to
Under the circumstances that she dealt with everyday, she still spoke out about her belief of being given the right to have an education, a place where the Taliban basically has complete control under a corrupt government and raids the villages almost every week. That is why I respect her so much, she is a young women who already has the determination of a leader and isn’t afraid of putting herself at risk in order for her voice to be heard.
One thing that I wish I could change about our school is creating an opportunity for more hands on work relating to clubs that help our community. For example, I think that it would be an amazing idea to have a club that went to homeless shelters around the area such as Lazarus house or even animal shelters. I feel as though making a direct impact on others is more life changing than raising money by itself. There are so many students in this school who may not be very involved, but I believe that with greater influence from others we can create an environment where students feel as though it’s easy to