Malala Yousufzai arrives in Pakistan to visit flood-affected communities.
Her parents are accompanying the Nobel laureate.
Yousufzai is expected to provide flood help via the Malala Fund.
KARACHI – Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai arrived in Karachi on Tuesday to visit flood-ravaged Pakistan.
Yousufzai is accompanied by her parents on the trip, which is being handled under tight security.
Nobel laureate and advocate for girls’ education is touring flood-affected regions to raise worldwide awareness about the devastation caused by climate change in the South Asian country.
This season, Pakistan saw more than average monsoon rainfall, which caused widespread flooding and submerged a third of the country, inflicting damage to standing crops, roads, and rail lines in Sindh and Balochistan.
Yousufzai is expected to provide flood help via the Malala Fund.
The Malala Fund donated an emergency relief donation to the International Rescue Committee in the first week of September (IRC). The monies will be used by the IRC to give psychological assistance to flood-affected girls and women in Sindh and Balochistan.
The funds will also be utilised to provide emergency education services to females so that they may complete their education. The Malala Fund’s support will be used to repair and reconstruct 10 damaged government schools for girls.
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner is visiting Pakistan for the second time.
Yousafzai, aged 15, was shot in the head at point-blank range by Taliban militants on her way home from school in Swat Valley in October 2012.
She was shot and taken to a military hospital in Peshawar before being airlifted to London for further treatment.
The incident was widely condemned across the world.
She has become a symbol of worldwide opposition to the Taliban’s campaign to deny women education and other rights.
At the age of 17, Yousafzai became the youngest laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, in appreciation of her advocacy for children’s rights.
