Islamabad (15 September 2025) — Malala Yousafzai and Ziauddin Yousafzai have declared an emergency grant of USD 230,000 to enable the reconstruction of educational actions in the areas of Pakistan that have been affected by floods.
The press release made by the Malala Fund stated that the financial aid will be distributed to local groups, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) and the Mountain Institute of Education and Development (MIED) in order to assist in recreating contact with education in the community that has been affected by a disaster.
The grant shall be utilized to provide the students with books, uniforms, school bags and hygiene kits as well as temporary learning centers will be opened. The report documented that tens of schools were damaged in the recent floods which left thousands of children without an education.
Malala Yousafzai said in her statement: Education is a basic right of all the children and we cannot give it to the calamity-raging hands.
The destructive floods that rocked different parts of Pakistan last year most especially in Swat, Shangla, and other mountainous territories badly ruined dozens of learning institutions. The problem is that the educational setback can only be solved many decades after unless urgent actions are undertaken, experts caution that the problem will last decades.
