Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai has announced she is donating all of the $50,000 she received as the recipient of the World’s Children’s Prize. The money is being donated to help rebuild United Nations Refugee and Works Agency schools damaged during this past summer’s fighting in Gaza.
No mention was made during the ceremony about whether the Gazan schools to be rebuilt with Malala’s money include ones in which Hamas rockets were stored, or whether any special efforts will be made to ensure that Hamas does not use the schools from which to launch rockets at Israel.
Malala is known the world over for her courageous stand in favor of the education of girls even in the dark areas of the world where extremist Islamists have pledged to prevent girls from attending school.
This is what Malala said in Stockholm, upon receiving the World’s Children’s Prize.
I am honored to announce all my World’s Children’s Prize money will go to help students and schools in an especially difficult place – in Gaza.
I am donating these funds to The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which is performing heroic work to serve children in Gaza, in very difficult circumstances.
The needs are overwhelming – more than half of Gaza’s population is under 18 years of age. They want and deserve quality education, hope and real opportunities to build a future.
This funding will help rebuild the 65 schools damaged during the recent conflict. Innocent Palestinian children have suffered terribly and for too long. We must all work to ensure Palestinian boys and girls, and all children everywhere, receive a quality education in a safe environment. Because without education, there will never be peace. Let us stand together for peace and education because together we are more powerful.
UNRWA was created in 1949 and is devoted exclusively to “assisting and protecting” what it claims are approximately “five million registered Palestine refugees.” These hapless people, of course, are the Arabs and their descendants who were displaced or chose to leave their homes due to the Arab war against the Jewish State when Israel was reborn in 1948.
Despite the billions of dollars which have been poured into this UN agency serving a single ethnic group, the agency’s deficit currently stands at $56 million.