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Malala, 23, and her new production company
Extracurricular join Apple TV+'s growing roster of content
creators including Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Will Smith,
Octavia Spencer and Jennifer Aniston, the iPhone maker said in a
blog post
https://www.apple.com/
newsroom/2021/03/apple-tv-plus-announces-programming-partnership-with-nobel-laureate-malala-yousafzai/#:~:text=March%208%2C%202021-,Apple%20TV%2B%20announces%20programming%20partnership%20with%20Nobel%20laureate%20Malala%20Yousafzai,children's%20series%20on%20Apple%20TV%2B.&text=At%20age%2016%2C%20Malala%20published,%2C%20%E2%80%9CI%20Am%20Malala.%E2%80%9D
on its website on International Women's Day.
"I hope that through this partnership, I will be able to bring
new voices to this platform, to this stage," Malala told Reuters
in an interview. "I hope that through me, more young people and
girls will watch these shows, get inspired."
Apple produced a documentary about Malala in 2015 and teamed up
with her Malala Fund in 2018 to promote secondary education to
girls across the globe.
In 2009 at age 12, Malala blogged under a pen name for the BBC
about living under the rule of the Pakistani Taliban. In 2012
she survived being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for
campaigning against its attempts to deny women education.
In 2014, she became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate
at age 17. In 2018 she launched Assembly, a digital publication
for girls and young women available on Apple News. She graduated
from Oxford University in June.
"I believe in storytelling because it has been part of my life,
it was my story that inspired so many people around the world to
realize that not all girls have access to education," she said.
On the 110th anniversary of International Women's Day, Malala
said women around the world should take a pause to appreciate
all they had achieved.
"I want every girl and woman to be proud of herself, to be proud
of all that she has achieved in her life," she said.
(Reporting by Roselle Chen in New York; Additional reporting by
Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Writing by Richard Chang; Editing by
Rosalba O'Brien)
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