Just explain
why you're
making this donation to this fund
and why you're doing it now.
Well, thanks, Julie.
It's great to be with you both.
I first met
Malala back in 20, 15
at the screening of her documentary
in San Francisco,
and I was completely enamored
by both by her and her organization
and her mission
to make sure
every girl has access
to 12 years of free, safe
and quality education.
And the more
I came to know them all the fund,
the more the scale of the problem
started to become clear.
Imagine 130 million girls
around the world
without access to education.
I want to invest more time
in to understand the problems
that we did travel to Africa together.
Back in 2016,
I joined the Leadership Council
even had team members of Airbnb
who volunteered
to redesign the website from all fund.
Malala. George
I've seen
you mentioned
that statistic before by the way,
and I think you called it outdated,
which I think is a polite term
and a diplomatic term for it,
which is the crucial part of the fight
and the efforts that you're both making.
Malala, I think most people watching
this will remember,
will know your story, will understand
why this fight is so personal to you.
Thank you for the work that you're doing,
first and foremost.
But just explain
how important this donation is
and what the money's going to go towards.
First of all,
I am just so grateful
for this opportunity
that George has given to Malala Fund.
I cannot tell you how excited I was
when I received a call from George
and he asked me about
the vision of Malala Fund.
And I said,
I like we need to do more for girls
there are still 100
more than 100 million girls
who do not have access to education.
Girls are not learning
quality education in their schools.
Girls are missing on the opportunity.
But it's not just a loss for girls.
It's a loss for the world.
It's an economic loss.
It's a political and social loss as well.
So I was
sharing all of
my ambitious plans and Joel said,
you know, I will support you.
And when I heard about
his generous contribution to Malala Fund,
I was just so grateful.
And when you hear
about the support of people,
it helps you to believe
even more in the mission
that you fight for.
We have been fighting for girls
education or
to Malala Fund for the past ten years.
And to know that George has been
with us
consistently from
the very beginning
has helped us do so much work already.
And it will
his support will help us to do the work
for many years ahead.
Our our goal is to ensure
that we create a world
where all girls can learn and lead,
where they have access to 12 years
of free quality and safe education.
I was one of those those
who could not go to school.
So I know how important it is
for every girl,
even that one last girl,
to have access to education.
Yeah.
I mean, it's going to help you
virtually double
the amount that you've invested
just to give people, again,
a reminder of the scale of the investment
that we're talking about, Joe.
As you said, this is not just a
one off is enormous.
I think mind blowing is
the term I would use.
And I think
I think we're hearing that from Malala
in the excitement
that she's expressing with
with what she's going to be able to do
and what the fund's
going to be able to do. With this money.
But why join the Leadership Council?
Just explain that decision?
Because this is multi years
that we're talking about
of working together,
just finding innovative ways,
I think, of helping women, young girls
access education,
that as Malala quite rightly said, it's
an economic benefit
to all, to society,
to allow this to take place.
That's right, Julia.
Along the way, I had a big aha moment,
which was that
educating girls has a
massive ripple effect
on other global topics.
If you care about economic development,
you should get involved.
If you care about climate change,
you should get involved.
If you care about extreme poverty,
you should get involved.
Education
equality is one of the most powerful ways
to address these global topics.
And so
if you invest in girls
education, you're actually investing
in a better planet.
For all of us,
which is
why I decided to step up my efforts here.
Yeah, I it's fantastic.
Malala,
talk to me
about some specific examples,
if you can,
because I was looking on your website
and we can
we can show this of what was going on
in the different countries.
I mean, I saw the work,
obviously, that you're doing
in Afghanistan.
The statistics there, I think now
3.7 million people out of school.
60% of those are girls.
And obviously that's
that's worsening Lebanon.
I believe a third of girls at school
in Lebanon.
Now, as Syrian refugees,
I mean, the the need, the requirements,
the investment
that is required at this
moment, sort of overwhelming
talk about
specific projects
so the situation for girls
education is alarming
because there are human made disasters
that we have faced,
including the wars and conflicts.
And then there are,
you know, other
natural disasters
or still, you know,
climate related disasters
that are impacting
including the recent floods in Pakistan
or the current situation in Afghanistan,
where girls education
is completely banned,
girls have access to secondary schools,
all universities.
Women cannot do jobs.
The situation is alarming
in many parts of the world.
And we have been taught this idea
of progress being linear
and that it will happen with time.
But what we are
witnessing right now is that
we not only need to achieve
these
these moments of progress,
but we need to maintain them.
We are just
so we are living in a very vulnerable
society.
We do not know for when our rights
can be taken away from us
when lost, contained.
And one when the situation again,
when we
are moving towards an unequal society.
So for me, it's just even more critical
right now
to ensure that we are investing
in girls education through Malala Fund.
We work with local education
activists in the countries
that you mentioned,
including Pakistan,
Brazil, Nigeria, Ethiopia.
They are the people who are
doing the research.
They are doing advocacy, the policies.
They are engaging
with the local communities,
parents, teachers,
religious leaders, community leaders
to advocate
for girls access to education.
We are we are working directly
with girls as well.
We have a platform called Assembly,
which is a digital newsletter through
which girls
are sharing their stories of how
they are addressing
the problems that they are facing.
They are not just talking about
the problems,
but how they're becoming the changemakers
in fighting them,
including climate change or mental health
or the quality of education in school
or the discrimination
that they face
or the racism that they face.
So we believe in those being the activist
who can, you know, who need to be heard.
And we help girls to be present
at the platforms
where decisions about their future
are made, including the UN or of
or the climate conferences.
These are the good schools
whose future is directly impacted
by the decisions that leaders need
when they are not present in their rooms,
their voices are not heard.
They are
the issues that they face
are not taken into consideration.
So our priority is to ensure
that guys get the opportunity
to raise their voice
and then they need to be heard in the
in the key rooms as well.
And access to education for girls
is their human right,
but it's also an economic
opportunity as well.
And for so many reasons,
this has to be a priority for everyone.
You know,
you said something really
important, which was
some of the
crises that we see around the world is
as a result of just devastating
accidents, things
like earthquakes that we've seen.
But some of them are human
made tragedies, war, for example.
And what we've seen and on your website
where you talk about your history
and your background,
one of the things that you say is
and it's not just about allowing girls
to learn,
it's also about allowing them to lead.
And I think
when you look at the leadership
around the world,
the importance of getting women
to a standard
where they are
educated enough to lead nations
and perhaps make better
decisions is also vital.
Malala, would you agree
we need
more female leadership around the world?
No doubt.
I 100% support female leadership.
And I support education because education
creates access
for women to so many opportunities
that they may not have,
especially in patriarchal societies.
In challenging environmental
education becomes like a beacon of
hope for them.
And that's the only light that they see.
Think about the girls
in Afghanistan right now
who do not have access
to secondary education.
They do not see a future for themselves.
And they are fighting
every day for the right to education.
They are protesting on the streets.
They are there globally as well.
Those are
those who succeeded in the evacuation.
They are raising their voices.
So when you look at their dedication,
it tells you
that they do not take education
for granted.
Education is future for them.
And and I often tell people
that if you are ever in doubt
about the importance of education,
go ask a good
English girl anything.
Quite frankly.
Joe, I have to bring you in
on this point.
I have about 30 seconds left.
I think the importance of
of the gift that you've provided
and the importance
of a female education and leadership.
You've already said
it really the beneficial aspects.
But would you agree
more female leadership
perhaps around the world
and we may be in a better place
I think more so that perfectly you know,
education is a right
it's a fundamental
right for boys and for girls.
And there's, you know,
many, many girls around the world
who don't have that. Right, right now.
Yeah.
And Malala,
I think it'd be great
if you shared that statistic
of the opportunity
cost of not doing this economically
if all girls receive
12 years of free quality
education, it would add
$30 trillion to the world economy.
There is the economic benefit.
And, you know,
I think join with you on this,
like with all the benefits.
You know, it's a human right.
It's the right of a child
to have access to learning.
They should be able to read
and write and access knowledge.
They should be able to achieve
their goals in their lives.
So we need to respect this right?
And we need to give it to them.
It's our responsibility
that leaders responsibility
and I hope that
people will do more for it.
It is a collective, complex
issue, and it's important
that we all play our role.
And I
hope that leaders become more ambitious
and they and they make it their
top priority.