Malala Fund Malala Fund Malala Fund is an international, non-profit organization that fights for girls' education. It was founded by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and her father, Ziauddin. The stated goal of the organization is to ensure 12 years of free, safe and quality education for every girl. The first contribution to Malala Fund in 2013 came from Angelina Jolie who gave a $200,000 personal donation, which was used to fund girls' education where Malala is from in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. In 2014, Malala Fund helped build an all-girls secondary school in
Malala Fund 11, the Gulmakai Network is a group of education champions and programs supported by Malala Fund. The current priority countries for Malala Fund are Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey. One of the Gulmakai champions for Pakistan is Gulalai Ismail, chairperson of Aware Girls an organisation with which Yousafzai trained in 2011. Malala, Ziauddin, Malala Fund staff, members of the Gulmakai Network and young education activists participate in conferences and meet with political leaders to advocate for girls' education. The advocacy goals are to increase funding for girls' education and to remove the barriers keeping girls from school,