Usaha Malala ternyata tidak sia-sia...
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10 November 2012 Last updated at 09:18 GMT
Pakistan 'to pay cash to poor to send kids to school'
Families of three million of Pakistan's poorest children will get cash sums if
their child attends school, in a scheme announced ahead of a day of action for
a schoolgirl shot by the Taliban.
Under the scheme, funded by the World Bank and UK, families would reportedly
get $2 a month per child in school.
The news came as the UN held "Malala Day", in the name of Malala Yousufzai, 15,
a Pakistani education campaigner.
She is recovering in the UK after she and two others were shot in October.
Saturday has been declared a global day of action in Malala's name aimed at
getting school places for 32 millions girls around the world who are not
attending classes.
Cash payments
The Waseela-e-Taleem programme was announced in Islamabad by Pakistani
President Asif Ali Zardari and special UN envoy for global education, Gordon
Brown.
"Malala's dreams represent what is best about Pakistan," said Mr Brown, the
former UK prime minister.
The initiative aims to enrol three million of the poorest children in education
in the next four years and, according to Reuters, will see poor families
receive $2 a month per child in primary school.
The cash will be distributed through the government's Benazir Income Support
Programme, designed to give small cash payments to needy families.
Those in the programme already receive $10 a month for basic expenditure,
Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people around the world have signed an online
petition calling for Malala to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The UK government has also been urged to back the campaign, with advocates
saying she represents those denied an education.
Doctors in the UK city of Birmingham, where Malala is being treated, say she is
making progress.
She and two other schoolgirls were attacked as they returned home from school
in Mingora in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan on 9 October.
The gunman who boarded the van in which she was travelling asked for her by
name before firing three shots at her.
In early 2009 she wrote an anonymous diary for BBC Urdu about life under the
Taliban, who had banned all girls in her area from attending school.
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