Tim Cook Discusses Apple's Partnership With Malala Fund to Support Girls' Education While in Canada

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that it has teamed up with Malala Fund to become the fund's first Laureate partner, providing Malala Fund with the support it needs to double the number of grants it provides and expand into India and Latin America.

The Malala Fund, led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, champions every girl's right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education.

Following the announcement, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke with iMore in a short interview in Toronto where he shared some insight into how Apple and the Malala Fund came to form a partnership. Cook says that after meeting Malala, it became clear that their values aligned. "Not only the Malala Fund and Apple, but our personal values as well," Cook said.

"One, equality is at the core of our belief and values and, two, that education is the great equalizer of people. If you believe both of those, it's not an extension at all to say, 'how do we help Malala achieve her vision of educating 130-million young girls around the world?'"

Cook said that he loves the Malala Fund's focus on secondary education, because in some places around the world, girls receive an education until grade 6 or grade 7, and then their schooling stops. "This isn't right," said Cook. "It doesn't maximize potential and it doesn't treat people with dignity or respect."

With Apple's help, the Malala Fund will double the grants it provides through its Gulmakai Network (which supports educational programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Nigeria) and extend funding programs to Latin America and India, offering secondary education opportunities to more than 100,000 girls to start with.

Apple will provide technology, curriculum, and research into policy changes needed to help girls around the world attend school and complete their education. Going forward, Cook will also serve on the Malala Fund leadership council.

Cook's full comments on the Malala Fund and some additional commentary on Swift Playgrounds can be read over at iMore.

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[826317]

What will this do though? Will those provide education for girls that is on par with what boys receive or will it be better?

 

[jclo]

What will this do though? Will those provide education for girls that is on par with what boys receive or will it be better?

There are countries (Pakistan, Afganistan, India, Nigeria, etc) where girls are much less likely to have the opportunity to receive a secondary education than boys. That's what the Malala Fund is for.

 

[filmantopia]

She is a miraculous person. The likes of Ghandi.

 

[brianvictor7]

So glad to see this!

 

[canadianreader]

With all the left/right propaganda going on these last months I feel that Malala is kind of an exception she is doing something good for the little girls helping them to get a decent education. But I could be wrong I hope she will stay away from propagandas and from being used by others to advance their agendas because evil always gravitates around the good to destroy it.

 

[saudade]

So glad to see this!

U know what is funny? Her name and these colorful wield clothes. Never saw that before. Very strange name. Is she a holly person or what? Asking respectfully cause i just don’t know

 

[meaning-matters]

Please teach they are valuable, have equal rights, and should rise up against macho (islamic) suppression/abuse.

 

[-BigMac-]

Do boys receive free education in those countries though? If they dont, then this is not equality but feminism.

 

[pratikindia]

U know what is funny? Her name and these colorful wield clothes. Never saw that before. Very strange name. Is she a holly person or what? Asking respectfully cause i just don’t know

Here is more about her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

 

[akash.nu]

She is a miraculous person. The likes of Ghandi.

How much do you know about Gandhi?!

 

[akash.nu]

Do boys receive free education in those countries though? If they dont, then this is not equality but feminism.

Up to a level both boys and girls get free / very cheap education in those countries.

 

[RichardMZhlubb]

Do boys receive free education in those countries though? If they dont, then this is not equality but feminism.

You say that like “feminism” is some sort of dirty word, which is ludicrous.

 

[guzhogi]

Do boys receive free education in those countries though? If they dont, then this is not equality but feminism.

Considering she was shot for wanting to get an education, while boys were allowed to get an education, I have no problem with girls getting a free education.

Also, according to the Oxford Dictionary, "feminism" means:

the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.

So it's putting women on equal footing with men, not giving women an unfair advantage, nor bashing men.

 

[brianvictor7]

The clothes are local garb from her region of Pakistan. She's not considered a "holy" person so far as I know, but she's very brave.

Some more background on her: She grew up in Pakistan where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. Yousafzai was injured on 9 October 2012 by a Taliban gunman when he attempted to murder her. The murder attempt sparked a national and international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Since recovering, Yousafzai became a prominent education activist. Based out of Birmingham, she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation,[9] and in 2013 co-authored I am Malala, an international bestseller. She went on to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ref to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

 

[-BigMac-]

Considering she was shot for wanting to get an education, while boys were allowed to get an education, I have no problem with girls getting a free education.

Also, according to the Oxford Dictionary, "feminism" means:


So it's putting women on equal footing with men, not giving women an unfair advantage, nor bashing men.

Sorry but no, equality is not the same as feminism, otherwise she would be promoting equality (if females were behind - equality would directly mean what ‘feminism’ is meant to be all about). But anyone who has an interest in this topic knows thats not what the feminist movement is about.

I love how you use one female getting shot entitles all females to receive free education. I know of a lot of males who have been shot in the foot metaphorically, by having education denied through higher demands on males to enter the education system for their prefered fields of study (nursing/childcare/aged care/allied health/engineering?) i see it on the news all the time. According to your logic it entitles FREE EDUCATION FOR THE BOYS.

Thanks for the laugh

 

[RichardMZhlubb]

Sorry but no, equality is not the same as feminism, otherwise she would be promoting equality (if females were behind - equality would directly mean what ‘feminism’ is meant to be all about). But anyone who has an interest in this topic knows thats not what the feminist movement is about.

I love how you use one female getting shot entitles all females to receive free education. I know of a lot of males who have been shot in the foot metaphorically, by having education denied through higher demands on males to enter the education system for their prefered fields of study (nursing/childcare/aged care/allied health/engineering?) i see it on the news all the time. According to your logic it entitles FREE EDUCATION FOR THE BOYS.

Thanks for the laugh

Just when I think we’re making real progress as a society, I see how far we still have to go.

 

[LordVic]

Was wondering what he was doing in Canada. Saw him on TV last night. He was sitting front row at the Toronto Maple Leafs game with Nick Kypreos (weird person for T.C. to be around, but, go Kyp)