Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai founded Malala Fund in 2013 to champion every girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education. They are creating a more equal world by making sure all girls can go to school.

Malala Fund invests in education advocates and activists who are challenging the policies and practices that prevent girls from going to school in their communities.

Since its founding in 2014 Maazah has served as more than a cherished family recipe but an instrument to bridge cultural and racial gaps between Afghan stereotypes and their community. For us, being able to share our mothers’ sauce has been a powerful way to bring the vibrancy of our Afghan heritage in a way that only food can do.

Our parents immigrated here in the late 1970s. They made the sacrifice to leave behind everything they knew to live in a country with personal freedoms, greater opportunity, and a strong education system. Our family has always valued education, and hosted Afghan high school students in our home to ensure they had access to secondary education programs here in the US.

For us, it’s more than a monetary partnership but a way to continue using the family business to ensure we are paving a future for women who haven’t received the opportunities we have. With the recent takeover of Afghanistan it is now the only country in the world that forbids girls from going to school. It is now more important than ever to support NGOs and relief work for the safety, support and development of young women in Afghanistan.