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2013 International Reflections of Hope Award
to Honor Ziauddin and Malala Yousafzai
February 07, 2013
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum today announced it will honor human rights activists Ziauddin and Malala Yousafzai with the 2013 Reflections of Hope Award. Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of Malala Yousafzai, will present globally telecast remarks in Oklahoma City on April 8, 2013, and receive the award on their behalf in his first trip to the United States since the Taliban’s assassination attempt on Malala in October last year.
"Malala and I are honored, and very grateful, to have been chosen as this year's recipients of the Reflections of Hope Award; I look forward to attending the ceremony in Oklahoma City in April," said Ziauddin Yousafzai. "Many thousands of people from around the world have reached out to our family to express their support and love, and it is extremely touching to know that the people of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum are among them."
Ziauddin Yousafzai is a renowned education and sociopolitical leader. Seventeen years ago, he founded—and still directs—the Khushal Public School in Pakistan, an all-girls institution created with the goal to foster a new generation of female leadership in an area where the Taliban has banned girls from attending school. His 15-year-old daughter, Malala—an outspoken activist in her own right—attended the school until October 2012 when the Taliban shot her in an assassination attempt on the school bus on her way home from classes.
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