PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday July 15, 2014, CMC – Seventeen year-old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai will visit the twin island republic on July 31.
This was confirmed on Monday in a statement from the Ministry of Tertiary Education and Skills Training.
Yousafzai gained worldwide attention in 2012, when a Taliban gunman, who opposed the teenager’s advocacy for women’s rights to education, entered the school bus in which she was travelling and shot her in the head.
She survived the attack and went on to continue her advocacy work, most recently campaigning for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram.
