Malala Yousafzai! - The girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban! Who is Malala Yousafazi? The July 12th, 1997 there was a girl born in Mangora, named Malala. Her family had not money enough to pay for a midwife, so a neighbor helped at birth. Malala was one of two children who was not stillborn. She got her name form a woman called Malalai, who was the greatest heroine of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, it is defeat to give birth to a girl. They think women only can cook food in the kitchen and give birth. And for the most Pashtuns it’s a tragedy when girls are born. When Malala was born, her father said that he could feel something spesial whit this girl. This girl would do something to change the world. She would stand up for her meanings. This is her story: When Malala yousafazi was 11 years old, she wrote a blog. The blog was about how to live under the Taliban. The blog was written in Urdu, and Malala chose to write anonymously. She wrote for BBC and The New York Times. Malala wrote about how Taliban controlled women’s lives. The Taliban would not let women go to publick schooles, and they could not go to public hospitals. They could not get help from a male doctor, so they had own hospitals for women with female doctors. Taliban said that it was women 's fault that the country was so poor because they had so many problems. Some of the problems were bad economy, many years of war and extreme poverty. Eventually it was also decided that the women could