Fifteen year-old Malala Yousafzai is speaking publicly for the first time since she was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for women’s rights.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Malala was filmed this past weekend both before and after five hours of surgery in the UK where surgeons attached a titanium plate to bridge a gap in her shattered skull caused by a Taliban bullet in her native Pakistan. Targeted for speaking out against the regime which does not allow girls to be educated, she was returning home on a bus in October, 2012, when members of the Taliban stormed onto the bus and shot her at point-blank range in the head and neck.
She was eventually flown to the UK where she made a miraculous recovery.
In the clip, which was filmed just before the operation, Malala said: “Today you can see that I am alive. I can speak, I can see you, I can see everyone and I am getting better day by day.
“It’s just because of the prayers of people. Because all people – men, women, children – all of them have prayed for me. And because of all these prayers God has given me this new life, a second life.
“And I want to serve.I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated. For that reason, we have organized the Malala Fund.”
A second video shows Malala sitting up in bed after the surgery. “I’m feeling alright and I’m happy both the operations are successful. Now they have removed everything from me and I can also walk a little bit and I can talk and I’m feeling better and it doesn’t seem like I had a big operation.
“I think everything is fine, it’s better. I think it will just get better very soon and there will be no problem. My mission is the same to help people and I will do that.”
Malala and her family are expected to establish permanent residency in the UK.
The new Malala Fund has been set up to support the determined teenager’s long-running efforts for children’s right to education across the world. It should be noted that the Malala Fund was created by Vital Voices, an organization whose co-founder, Melanie Verveer, supports abortion rights. Malala herself will supposedly direct the use of these funds toward the education of girls and women in Pakistan.
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