"We are proud to call you Canadian" blog post

Summary of Article
I read the article called We are proud to call you Canadian. This article is about a nineteen year old girl named Malala Yousafzai who was named an honorary citizen of Canada on April 12, 2017. She is the youngest person to receive this award. An honorary citizenship is different from an ordinary citizenship in the way that an honorary citizen cannot vote or get a passport. Malala's village had been invaded by the Taliban who forced their beliefs on all those who lived there. The Taliban banned music, tv, women from having jobs and going shopping and they banned girls going to school. They also made women wear burqas to cover their faces and bodies. Malala went to school anyway and wrote an anonymous blog for the BBC that told the world about what was going on. The  Taliban didn't like the blog and found out who wrote it. In 2012, Malala was shot whilst coming home from school yet she continued to speak out for what she believed in.

My Opinion
I think that Malala is a very brave person for speaking out for what she believes even after she and her father were threatened and also after she was shot. I doubt that many people have that kind of courage.  Learning about what she and other people did when they were children and what children are currently doing has helped me realize that no matter how old people are they have the power to make a difference. It also makes me appreciate that it is only because of geography and circumstance that I have the opportunities and the life I have today.  I am not the only one who thinks this, the Pakistani government and the Canadian government evidently agree that she is exceptional and has made a real difference. The Canadian government gave her honorary citizenship and the Pakistani government awarded her the National Peace Award, later renamed the National Malala Peace Prize.
http://www.biography.com/people/malala-yousafzai-21362253
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23241937

Further info on children that changed the world
I have found out about several other children that changed the world. They are Anne Frank, Samantha Smith, Hector Pieterson, Iqbal Masih, Nkosi Johnson, Om Prakash Gurjar and Thandiwe Chama. Thandiwe Chama a 16 year old Zambian girl who's school was closed when she was 8 because there were no teachers. She led 60 other children to find another school.  Om Prakash Gurjar was taken away from his parents at the age of 5 and worked in the fields for 3 years before being rescued. After being rescued Om campaigned for free education in Rajasthan. He also helped  set up a network of villages in which children's rights are respected and set up a network that aims to give every child a birth certificate to help protect them from exploitation. When she was 10 years old Samantha Smith an American school girl wrote a letter to a Soviet Leader asking why relations between the US and the Soviet Union were so tense. She received a reply on April 26,1983 and through that became known as "America's Youngest Ambassador". Samantha Smith died at age 13 in a plane crash. These are just a few examples of how children have and continue to positively change the world we live in.
http://listverse.com/2008/07/16/7-children-who-changed-the-world/