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 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, near the Syrian border, for Syrian refugees. In 2016, Malala visited Dadaab Refugee Camp for her birthday and attended the graduation of refugee girls from a mentorship program on leadership and life skills supported by Malala Fund. In December 2016, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $4 million to help Malala Fund launch the Gulmakai Network to support education champions in developing countries. In 2017, Malala Fund significantly expanded investment projects that Newsweek described as, "education advocacy programs run by local people — the kind Yousafzai and her father led when they lived in Pakistan —