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Gleitsman Award 2018

November 2 , 2018 2070 days 753 0
  • 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’.

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