Malala kept going to school and she started giving interviews in order to promote education and women's rights. She was just a child but she spoke from the heart and people listened to her speeches and she received many awards. She wrote a blog for the BBC website in which she described life under the Taliban rule. Her father encouraged her and they kept their spirits up in spite of the numerous threats they received and the people that were killed every day by the Taliban. The reign of terror lasted many years and people did nothing to defend themselves and to get rid of the Taliban until the government started up a war and drove them from the region.
In 2012 Malala was coming home from school when their school bus was stopped and a young man started shooting the girls. He shot Malala in the head and he injured other two girls who happened to be in his way.