Malala is an international topi drama..she is raising 1.2 Billion for Syrian girls but have taken a dump on her friends...not even inviting them or sharing the nobel prize ceremony with them..what a bitch..
The story of the Taliban’s attempted assassination of then 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai is known by millions around the world; however, few have heard what happened to the two other girls who were wounded in the attack on October 9, 2012. Shazia Ramzan was hit twice in the arm and Kainat Riaz was shot in the hand. While the world followed Malala’s story breathlessly as she was airlifted to Britain for treatment, these two teens faced their own daunting challenge: continuing their education in a country where girls are shot for fighting for their right to learn.
Riaz says the attack left her afraid for her life: “I didn’t go to hospital [right away] because I felt that the guy would come again and he will shoot me....[F]or one week I couldn’t sleep at all. Because whenever I just closed my eyes [I pictured] what happened to us on the bus: lots of blood and Malala and my hand.” But after their recoveries, both Ramzan and Riaz were still determined to go to school. The Taliban’s intimidation tactics were working, however, on the people around them. “We [asked] other people for bus travel,” Riaz remembers. “Openly they told us, ‘No, we are scared. We are sorry we can’t pick you up.’ After three months we had a bomb blast behind my house. So my town told me, ‘This happened because of you and you should leave the town.’”
Their worlds changed again in 2013 when UWC Atlantic College, a boarding school in Wales, offered Malala a scholarship. She declined, asking instead that her friends be given an opportunity to come study in safety. Ramzan and Riaz arrived in a new country speaking little English and without their families, but excited to have the opportunity to study without fear. Ramzan in particular loved the co-educational nature of the school. “I think it’s really good to get education with boys and girls, coeducation, because it makes me think that we are not different. We are equal,” she says. “That is what I feel here in UWC Atlantic College with the mix of other students. Mix of boys, mix of girls. We have different nationalities. When you hear other people’s stories it makes you think that we are here in the right place.”
Since the day on the bus in 2012, both young women say they have changed enormously: “Now I have more confidence, more strength, and more support from my family and from other people. I feel now that I can do everything,” Riaz marvels. Ramzan agrees, saying “You know when you have that feeling that in your heart that you want to do something but then you don’t feel comfortable to do [it]?...But now I speak freely. I share my ideas.” And she wishes the same confidence for all the other children in the world, both boys and girls. “This is your world. This is your choice. You should stand up for your rights…. If one person can be educated, they can teach other people. They can teach other children. You help one person and they will also help another person. If we stand for other people, we all can become Malala.”
You can read more about Ramzan and Riaz’s experiences, as well as as an interview with both Mighty Girls, on PRI at
http://bit.ly/1TW1K7t
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