Sent to Mary Perly - Canet en Roussillon, France - 20/07/13

For Mary's call "Femmes célèbres ou qui mériteraient de l'être...", that is, "Women who are famous or who deserve to be so…", I sent a card honouring Malala Yousafzai.
 

Malala Yousafzai (born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani young woman/girl known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls.

On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa against those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated its intent to kill Yousafzai and her father.

On 12 July 2013, Yousafzai spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education (most info from Wikipedia)