ISLAMABAD – Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is all set to receive yetanother prestigious international award.
She will receive the 2018 Gleitsman Award from the Center for PublicLeadership at Harvard Kennedy School for her global movement to equip girlswith 12 years of free, quality, and safe education.
The award will be presented to Malala at a public ceremony at HarvardKennedy School today (Thursday).
In 2014, Malala became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize inrecognition of her efforts for children’s rights. On October 2012, Malalawas shot in the head at point-blank range by Taliban gunmen as she wasreturning from her school in Swat valley.
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Now 21, Malala is a student at Oxford University in England. The GleitsmanAward provides $125,000 for activism that has improved quality of lifearound the world.
