Some聽four years after she was gunned down by Taliban militants in Pakistan鈥檚 Swat Valley, Nobel Peace Prize winner and women鈥檚 education rights advocate Malala Yousafzai has earned millions of pounds from her best-selling autobiography and speaking engagements, according to reports.
The Sun聽reported that 18-year-old聽Yousafzai earned聽拢1 million (P63 million) from her global lectures and proceedings from her memoir 鈥淚 Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban,鈥� published in 2013. Each of her speaking engagements has a tag聽price of聽拢114,000 (P7.2 million).
Yousafzai and her parents, Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toor Pekai, are shareholders of Salarzai Ltd., a firm established to safeguard her rights to her life story. In a report by聽British news site Daily Mail, the London-based company made a pre-tax profit of 拢1.1million (P69 million).
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A spokesperson for Yousafzai told Daily Mail: 鈥淪ince the publication of Malala鈥檚 book, Malala and her family have donated more than 拢750,000 (P47.3 million) to charities, mostly for education-focused projects across the world including Pakistan.鈥�
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The women鈥檚 education advocate, who is currently residing in Birmingham,UK, studies at Edgbaston High School for Girls. She was fired three times in the head by a Taliban gunner while on a school bus in Pakistan in 2012. 聽Gianna Francesca Catolico
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