STORY: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl and girl's rights campaigner who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012, joined Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in a live chat on Friday (August 8).
Yousafzai, who turned 17 in July, told an online audience that millions of children around the world don't have the option of going to school and that education is a precious opportunity children in wealthy countries take for granted.
"In the developing countries, there are so many children, like 57 million children, and especially girls, who are out of school, whose only dream is to go to school, whose only dream is to get quality education," the teen activist said. "They do wish for an Xbox, they do not wish for a PSP or any other thing. They're only wish is for a quality education, and they are struggling for that."
Malala reminded her online audience, which stretched from Dubai to California, that it took activists 100 years to
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