Malala Yousafzai, who at 17 became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has influenced countless people all over the world as an activist for female education. One of those is Yoshiko Nishida.
The translator of Malala's memoir "I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban," has begun raising donations in her hometown of Nagoya for the Malala Fund, which was founded by Malala to support female education in Pakistan.
"I was inspired by Malala, who took action (for a cause she believed in), to start doing something myself, too," said the 49-year-old translator, who now lives in the western Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa.
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