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Malala Yousafzai to receive Harvard award for activism

Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai is being honored by Harvard University for her work promoting girls' education

AP Reported by: AP Published on: October 31, 2018 3:15 IST
Malala Yousafzai to receive Harvard award for activism
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai (mah-LAH'-lah YOO'-suhf-zeye) is being honored by Harvard University for her work promoting girls' education.

Harvard's Kennedy School says Yousafzai will be awarded the 2018 Gleitsman Award at a Dec. 6 ceremony.

Yousafzai 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.

As a teen in Pakistan, she survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She later founded the nonprofit Malala Fund to support her work.

Harvard officials say her story has inspired a generation of boys and girls to follow in her footsteps.

Now 20, Yousafzai is a student at Oxford University in England.

The Gleitsman Award provides $125,000 for activism that has improved quality of life around the world.

Disclaimer: This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Associated Press (AP) wire.
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