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The Girl and the Oranges

              FRIEND: When did you decided to dedicate your life to the
                education of girls?
              MALALA: Actually, it was a few years ago, on a trip
                to Shangla.
              FRIEND: Really? Tell me more about it.
              MALALA: I was with my family, traveling to Shangla because
                my father had just bought some land there. As we crossed
                the Malakand Pass, I saw a girl selling oranges. We
                stopped to buy a few, because they looked delicious.
              FRIEND: I can imagine that you were excited to have some
                after the long trip.
              MALALA: Yes, they were very good.
              FRIEND: What happened next?
              MALALA: After we chose how many we were going to buy;
                my father paid the girl. After receiving the money, she
                scratched five marks on a piece of paper with a pencil.
              FRIEND: Why did she do that? I don’t understand.
              MALALA: It was her way to account for the oranges she
                had sold us.
              FRIEND: Oh, so she didn’t know how to read or write, did she?
              MALALA: Exactly. Those marks helped her to know the
                exact amount of oranges she had sold.
              FRIEND: What did you do afterwards?
              MALALA: I took a photo of her and vowed I would do
                everything in my power to help educate girls just like her.
                That’s when I decided this was the war I was going to fight.
















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