Malala & family arrive in Pakistan to promote STEAM education for girls

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LAHORE: Co-founders of Malala Fund, Malala Yousafzai her father Ziauddin Youasfzai, her husband Asser Malik, and mother Toor Pekai Yousafzai arrived in Lahore, Pakistan work on STEAM education for young girls. Apart from this they are also going to start a fellowship program for teachers’ training.

After arriving at Lahore airport Malala tweets as:

It will be her second visit in the year 2022.

Also read: Youngest Nobel laureate Malala returns to Pakistan to help flood victims

This time she will be having meetings with key stakeholders in education, government, the development community, media, digital cultural creators, students and youth, along with advocates from the Malala Fund Education Champion Network and partners.

The co-founders will join an academic delegation from the Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP) and the Malala Fund team, across a series of events, to increase awareness of the OPP within Pakistan, with focus on science education for Pakistani girls. The promotion of secondary school-aged girls’ access to STEAM education is a major pillar of the Malala Fund in Pakistan, who are currently working with the Ministry of Federal Education to implement an ambitious programme on STEAM education to reform 13,000 government high schools across Pakistan.

During this trip, Malala will also highlight work with the OPP, an initiative led by her alma mater. The OPP initiative aims to bridge Oxford and Pakistan’s academic communities, including a newly established fellowship with Malala Fund, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), the OPP and Oxford’s Department of Education. The Malala Visiting Fellowship in Education will facilitate teacher training courses in Pakistan to address the shortage of trained teachers, especially women, in Pakistan.  

Malala and Ziauddin will also hold a meeting with the chief minister of Punjab, Ch. Pervez Elahi with a focus on education and the work of the Malala Fund in Pakistan.

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