| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/07/14, 11:13 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The audience of school children, teachers and education advocates had been restless as the men in suits at the UN paid tribute to Malala Yousafzai on the big screen. But as the small girl draped in a bright pink shawl stood on the raised box and began to address her audience, there was total stillness.
Malala may have been several thousand miles away in New York, but at the Southbank Centre in London it was as if she were in the room. Tears were brushed away and spontaneous applause rippled through the room as she continued her historic speech. In the moments after it finished, as the applause died away, a group of pupils from the Sarah Bonnell girls' school in Stratford reacted as if they had had an audience with a rock star.
"She is just my idol, I look up to her so much," said 13-year-old Arlina Hysenaj. "It's like she doesn't even know what revenge is, she just believes right can win.
"Earlier, Sarah Brown had addressed the event – hosted by children's charity Plan UK, A World at School and the Southbank Centre – pre-empting Malala's own comment that terrorists were
most afraid of education.
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