Malala Turns 18, And Opens A School For Syrian Refugee Girls
By Hannah Bloch
The Pakistani education activist, who was shot in the head in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, marked her birthday with refugees in Lebanon. She warned that the world is “failing … Syria’s children.”
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