Karachi: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai arrived in Karachi on Tuesday to visit the flood-affected areas of Pakistan.
Yousafzai was accompanied by her parents under tight security during the trip.
Nobel laureates and girls’ education campaigners are visiting flood-hit areas to raise international awareness of the devastation caused by climate change in the South Asian nation.
Pakistan experienced above-normal monsoon rains this season, triggering nationwide floods and leaving a third of the country under water, damaging standing crops and roads and railways in Sindh and Balochistan. .
Yousafzai is expected to receive aid from the Malala Fund for flood relief.
In the first week of September, the Malala Fund released an emergency aid grant to the International Rescue Committee (IRC). IRC will use the funds to provide psychological support to girls and women in flood-affected Sindh and Balochistan.
Funding will also be used to provide emergency education services to ensure girls continue their education. Malala Fund’s support will help repair and rehabilitate ten damaged government schools for girls.
This is the second time that the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner has visited Pakistan.
In October 2012, Yousafzai – then 15 years old – was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen as she was returning from her school in the Swat Valley.
He sustained bullet injuries and was admitted to a military hospital in Peshawar but was later flown to London for further treatment.
This firing was condemned at the international level.
She has become an internationally recognized symbol of resistance against the Taliban’s efforts to deny women education and other rights.
In 2014, Yousafzai became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 in recognition of her efforts for children’s rights.
