Saturday, December 6, 2014

The Malala Fund

The Malala Fund co-founders, Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2014, and Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, U.N. Special Advisor on Global Education
 
We Amplify
the voices of the girls to keep them in the spotlight, inspire girls globally and drive action on girls’ issues by the global community.
 
We Advocate
at the international, national and local level for policy and system changes that give girls access to a high quality education at a community level.
 
We Invest
in community centered scalable solutions that provide quality education with potential for systems level change by empowering local leaders and educators.
The Malala Fund invests in early stage or small organizations that are led by local leaders. We make grants that help organizations scale their impact to lead to systems level change in the country. We believe in the power of local leaders and entrepreneurs and aim to support and amplify their work through our partnerships.
Pakistan
The Malala Fund currently funds work providing quality education and communities of support to girls who were in exploitive child domestic labor.

Nigeria
We support "safe space" projects for schoolgirls and provide mentoring and support to girls who were married young and have no opportunity to go to school.

Jordan
Informal education programs engage Syrian refugee children in Northern Jordan who have dropped out of school or are at risk of dropping out of the learning process completely.
 
Kenya
The Malala Fund works with partners to provide funding for school expansion and infrastructure so more girls can receive quality education.
 
We believe in the power of advocacy to mobilize resources at scale.
 
Our initial advocacy work also includes supporting the Global Partnership for Education replenishment of $4 billion to get all children into school, the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in Nigeria, and the launching of the youth resolution at the United Nations.