Malala Yousafzai
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But when you see brilliant girls who have this courage to stand up for their rights, like Muzoon, who is a Syrian refugee and now lives in Jordan,
And she's a wonderful girl, and I have met her, and now she is helping girls and boys in her community, in the camp she's living, to go to school, and she's encouraging them.
I have met many girls in Nigeria when I went there to stand, to raise my voice for the kidnappees in Nigeria.
Right.
So I met brilliant girls there as well, and from Pakistan,
So it's really nice to see them speaking.
And I always encourage, wherever I go, I encourage children and people that they should not wait for someone else to speak up for them.
Their voices are really powerful and they should speak up for their rights.
So it was really disappointing when I went to Kenya that these girls, they have this dream to go to school.
They wish for nothing else.
And this ambition to help their community, to help people.
But when you look at the problems in the society that are stopping them, it's really disappointing.
In some places they don't have
enough money.
In some places, education is not free.
In some places, there are cultural issues.
So that's why we are now kind of telling the world leaders, asking them that 12 years of education should be made free.
And this is our demand for the Sustainable Development Goals.