Harvard University (US) has selected Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai (20) for its 2018 Gleitsman Award in recognition of her work promoting girls’ education.
The Gleitsman Award provides US $125,000 for activism that has improved quality of life around the world.
Background
In 2014, at the age of 17 she was awarded Nobel peace prize, becoming youngest Nobel Laureate in the history of Nobel award.
She had shared this award with Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.
United Nations in her honour has declared 12 July as ‘Malala Day’.