--- description: The 17-year-old is the first person to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the Children's Prize in the same year title: Malala Donates $50,000 Toward Reconstruction of Gaza Schools image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt550fd41a5deff6b1/6987632b8e06011ee8457f45/458038446.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Malala](/tag/malala/) ## Malala Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Malala Donates $50,000 Toward Reconstruction of Gaza Schools  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 29, 2014 4:06 PM CUT  Pakistani activist for female education Malala Yousafzai attends a press conference ahead of the award ceremony for the 2014 World's Children Prize for the Rights of the Child at Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, Sweden on Oct. 29, 2014. Pakistani activist for female education Malala Yousafzai attends a press conference ahead of the award ceremony for the 2014 World's Children Prize for the Rights of the Child at Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, Sweden on Oct. 29, 2014.Jonathan Nackstrand—AFP/Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 29, 2014 4:06 PM CUT Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen activist who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, [received another honor](http://worldschildrensprize.org/nominees2014 "undefined") Wednesday and said she is donating the $50,000 in prize money to a United Nations agency that is rebuilding schools in Gaza following the summer conflict with Israel. “The needs are overwhelming — more than half of Gaza’s population is under 18 years of age,” Malala said while being honored with the World Children’s Prize in Stockholm, according to a [statement](http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/malala-yousafzai-donates-prize-money-unrwa-help-rebuild-damaged-school-gaza "undefined") released by the U.N. Reliefs and Works Agency. “They want and deserve quality education, hope and real opportunities to build a future.” Malala, who at age 15 survived being shot by the Taliban, has amassed a global following for work in the fight for girls’ right to education. The 17-year-old is the [first person](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/malala-yousafzai-reconstruction-gaza-schools "undefined") to receive the Children’s Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3545947/malala-children-prize-education-gaza/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3545947/malala-children-prize-education-gaza/"},"headline":"Malala Donates $50,000 Toward Reconstruction of Gaza Schools","datePublished":"2014-10-29T16:06:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:05:12.533Z","description":"Donation will aid U.N. agency","url":"https://time.com/3545947/malala-children-prize-education-gaza/","keywords":["Malala","Pakistan","Gaza and the West Bank","sweden","Gaza","Nobel Peace Prize"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt550fd41a5deff6b1/6987632b8e06011ee8457f45/458038446.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt550fd41a5deff6b1/6987632b8e06011ee8457f45/458038446.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SWEDEN-CHILDREN-RIGHT-PRIZE","caption":"SWEDEN-CHILDREN-RIGHT-PRIZE","creditText":"Jonathan Nackstrand—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/malala/","name":"Malala"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3545947/malala-children-prize-education-gaza/","name":"Malala Donates $50,000 Toward Reconstruction of Gaza Schools"}}]}] ```