Youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai, has become a millionaire
The teenager, who was shot in the face by the Taliban, has earned over £1million from best-selling book and lectures
INSPIRING Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai, shot in the face for campaigning about women’s rights, is now a millionaire.
A firm set up to handle cash from the former schoolgirl’s international best-selling book and lecture tours has £2.3million in its coffers.
Last year the company turned over £1.1million, and the teenager will have to pay a tax bill of £200,000.
Salarzai Limited – registered in London – is run with the help of Malala’s proud and protective father, Zia.
Accounts submitted to Companies House reveal the principal activity of the firm is “owning the rights to the story” of Malala.
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Malala, 18, who now lives in Birmingham, was shot three times in the head by a Taliban gun-man on a school bus in Pakistan in 2012.
She was singled out for her demands that girls should not be prevented from attending school in the terror stronghold of Swat.
After miraculously surviving the cowardly attack she was airlifted to the UK for treatment, and has now settled in the West Midlands with her family.
Malala became the world’s youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Her, book, 'I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban', was published in 2013.
Malala stars in speaking engagements, and has become an advocate for women’s rights, across the world.
She has also set up a drive to try and help the 60 million girls in the world who do not have access to education.
Malala’s Fund aims to “raise girls’ voices and ensure every girl has access to 12 years of free, safe, quality primary and secondary education”.
Malala, who attends Edgbaston High School for Girls, gave a moving speech at a gathering in Trafalgar Square last week to pay tribute to assassinated MP Jo Cox.
Last year the devout Muslim hit out at Donald Trump’s plan to ban followers of her religion from entering America.
Malala called the comments of the US Presidential hopeful “tragic” and “full of hatred”.
A family spokesman said: “Since the publication of Malala's book, Malala and her family have donated more than $1million to charities, mostly for education-focused projects across the world including Pakistan."
