Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai will receive the 2018 Gleitsman Award today for her global movement to provide girls with 12 years of free education.
According to details, the award will be presented to Malala from the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy school today. The Gleitsman Award provides $125,000 for activism that has improved quality of life around the world.
David Gergen, professor of public service at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Center for Public Leadership, said that Malala speaks powerfully to the strength and perseverance of women and girls who are oppressed.
The 21-year-old is currently studying at Oxford University in United Kingdom (UK). In 2014, she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts for children’s rights.
Back in 2012, Malala was shot in the head by Taliban as she was coming back from her school in Swat valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).
