(Karachi) Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited women who survived the recent floods in Pakistan on Wednesday, on her second trip to her country since the Taliban attack that nearly cost her her life in 2012.
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Malala, 25, visited camps in the rural province of Sind (southeast) where she met women who had fled their flooded villages whom she described as “very brave”, according to her words quoted in a press release from the provincial authorities.
She also expressed her concern about the situation of education, as two million children can no longer go to class and 12,000 schools have been damaged following the catastrophic floods which affected a third of Pakistani territory this summer during the monsoon.
In the hundreds of makeshift camps set up in the country, where the survivors live, the authorities are facing a health crisis with the increase in malaria, dengue fever and malnutrition.
The floods displaced 8 million people and caused $28 billion in damage.
Malala was 15 when, on October 9, 2012, members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), burst into the bus driving her home from school and shot her in the head for daring to campaign. in favor of the education of girls in its valley of Swat (north-west).
Urgently treated in Great Britain, she became a global symbol of resistance to religious extremism and the voice of girls deprived of education, then in 2014 the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history.
In Pakistan, the TPP’s Taliban led a long insurgency that ended in a heavy military crackdown in 2014.
With the arrival of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the movement has re-emerged in the region. Some 2,000 students and their teachers demonstrated on Tuesday in Mingora, the town where Malala grew up, after Monday’s attack on a school bus that left one driver dead and one student injured.