{"id":971,"date":"2021-06-30T03:31:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedtimehistorystories.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2024-03-01T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:45:31","slug":"the-malala-yousafzai-story-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedtimehistorystories.com\/the-malala-yousafzai-story-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Malala Yousafzai History for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mENdjh5FaQY?si=Q_SDg32hbaWGkXR2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who was Malala Yousafzai?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine you live in a country far away.&nbsp; It is a poor country with war and where girls are not allowed to go to school.&nbsp; But your parents are kind and smart.&nbsp; They think that boys and girls should both go to school and they want you to go to school too.&nbsp; But you are a girl and it is not allowed.&nbsp; What would you do?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the experience of a young girl named <strong>Malala Yousafzai<\/strong>.\u00a0 Malala was a girl from Pakistan.\u00a0 She was only 11 years old when she started to get noticed for standing up for girls&#8217; rights.\u00a0 Malala was brave and strong and she stood up for what she believed and as a result, she ended up changing her country and the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/malala-yousafzai\/id1155392992?i=1000414017342\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Malala&#8217;s Birth and Birthplace<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Swat Valley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/30\/world\/asia\/pakistan-fast-facts\/index.html\">Pakistan<\/a>. For the first few years of her life, Malala\u2019s hometown was a popular place for people to visit on vacation.&nbsp; People from around the country would visit the town for summer festivals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/08\/Shinz%C5%8D_Abe_and_Malala_Yousafzai_%281%29_Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Malala Yousafzai\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the town and the country started to change when a new government took control of the country.&nbsp; A government is a group of people that make decisions about how a country will work and the rules that the people in the country will follow.&nbsp; In Pakistan at the time that Malala was a young girl, a very strict government called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-south-asia-11451718\">the Taliban<\/a> tried to take control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who were Malala Yousafzai&#8217;s parents?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala lived at home with her father and mother when she was a girl.&nbsp; Her father\u2019s name was <strong>Ziauddin Yousafzai<\/strong> and he was a schoolmaster at a local school and someone who believed strongly in his ideas that all children should go to school. Malala\u2019s mother\u2019s name was <strong>Toorpekai Yousafzai<\/strong> and she cared for Malala and her siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban told people from Pakistan that they should not let girls go to school anymore.&nbsp; It was an old-fashioned idea that they wanted to bring back to the country.&nbsp; However, Malala\u2019s father disagreed with this idea.&nbsp; He thought that all kids should get to go to school so that they could learn important life skills and take care of themselves and get good jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen to the audio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-8772042\"><\/div>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/bedtimehistory.buzzsprout.com\/1120928\/3932225-malala-yousafzai.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-8772042&amp;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Early Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala\u2019s father ran one of the last girl&#8217;s schools that continued to run even though the Taliban government told all the girl&#8217;s schools to shut down. Instead of listening to the government\u2019s orders, Malala\u2019s dad kept letting girls attend his school, including Malala.&nbsp; He encouraged her to speak out about what the government was doing. Malala learned from a very early age that this was very important to girls and to her country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala listened to her father and on September 1, 2008, when she was 11 years old, she gave her first speech at a community hall in Peshawar.&nbsp; The title of her speech was, &#8220;How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?&#8221;&nbsp; It was a speech that was about her opinion that the Taliban government should not close down girls&#8217; schools or forbid them from attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Trouble with The Taliban<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a scary time in Pakistan for people to speak out about the government.&nbsp; The Taliban government was very strict and very powerful.&nbsp; Strict means telling people that they have to behave a certain way and exactly what they have to do so they won\u2019t get in trouble.&nbsp; They scared Malala and others who spoke out about them and disagreed with what they were doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because Malala did not want to get in trouble, she started writing using a fake name to write articles: <strong>Gul Makai<\/strong>.&nbsp; She wrote articles on the internet for a famous news company from Britain called the BBC.&nbsp; Malala wrote about what it was like to live with such a strict government and the articles were published for people from all around the world to see.&nbsp; She thought she was safe because her identity was secret.&nbsp; However, someone found out who she was and told other people that it was Malala who was writing the articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban government was angry at Malala for saying bad things about them and the things that they believed and their rules.&nbsp; They decided that they wanted to kill Malala and her family so that she could not speak out about them anymore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Malala was frightened for her family\u2019s safety, she didn\u2019t think that the Taliban government would hurt her because she was a kid and so she carried on with her speeches. One day when she was 15 years old and riding the bus home from school, some Taliban people got on the bus and shot her.&nbsp; She was hurt very badly but she did not die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Malala&#8217;s Life In Crisis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala needed to go to a special hospital, so she got flown out of her country of Pakistan on an airplane to England. Once she was in England, she was safe from the Taliban government but she was still very hurt.&nbsp; She had to have a number of surgeries at a hospital in order to get better.&nbsp; She healed very well and within one year, she was able to start going to school again.&nbsp; This time she stayed in England and went to school there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Malala Speaks Out<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Later that year, after Malala was feeling better, she was invited to speak at the United Nations in New York City, in America.&nbsp; It was the first time that she spoke in public again since she was attacked.&nbsp; Malala\u2019s speech was on her 16th birthday and her topic was the rights of every child to go to school.&nbsp; She said in her speech that all governments around the world should make policies that allow girls to go to school.&nbsp; Policies mean a rule or law that allows people to do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the speeches she gave after her attack, Malala talked about the courage that she had developed after her injury.&nbsp; She said that the Taliban government \u201cthought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage were born.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala received a lot of awards for her bravery.&nbsp; When she was 15 she published a book about her life called, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Am-Malala-Education-Changed-Readers\/dp\/031632793X\">I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World<\/a>\u201d.&nbsp; One of the most important awards that she received was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/hrprize.aspx\">United Nations Human Rights Prize<\/a>, which is an important award that is only given every five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=bedtimehist09-20&#038;language=en_US&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=031632793X&#038;asins=031632793X&#038;linkId=db150fd4f5d6e0c179a29160af916437&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nobel Peace Prize<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Another important award Malala received was the <strong>Nobel Peace Prize<\/strong>. She was 17 when she received it, and she was the youngest person to ever get the award. When Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif said: Malala \u201cis (the) pride of Pakistan, she has made her countrymen proud. Her achievement is unparalleled and unequaled. Girls and boys of the world should take lead from her struggle and commitment.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c3\/John_Lewis_meets_with_Malala_Yousafzai_at_US_Capitol.jpg\/2560px-John_Lewis_meets_with_Malala_Yousafzai_at_US_Capitol.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:411px;height:275px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Malala and civil rights leader John Lewis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Malala was &#8220;a brave and gentle advocate of peace who, through the simple act of going to school, became a global teacher.\u201d&nbsp; In Malala\u2019s 2013 speech at the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that July 12th, which is Malala\u2019s birthday,&nbsp; would now be called Malala Day.&nbsp; This was in honor of the work that Malala did to ensure education for all children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does Malala do now?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Today Malala continues to work to try to help children around the world.&nbsp; She has worked hard to raise money so that other girls can go to school.&nbsp; She is now going to university to study philosophy, politics, and economics.&nbsp; These are subjects that teach people how the world works and how to make it a better place through rules and policies.&nbsp; Malala plans to continue to work to make the world a better place for all children.&nbsp; She also wants to keep making sure that girls all around the world can go to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there something that you think would make the world a better place?&nbsp; Is there something that you notice is unfair to yourself, your family, or to others?&nbsp; Think about the things that would be good to change in the world around you to make the world a fair and positive place for all people.&nbsp; Perhaps there are people you know that don\u2019t have a lot of money?&nbsp; Or people that are not treated well?&nbsp; If there are things in the world that you think should be changed, you can change them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/08\/Malala_Yousafzai.jpg\/2560px-Malala_Yousafzai.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:418px;height:278px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala was taught from a young age that there is power in words and in speaking up for what you believe in.&nbsp; If there are things you can see that would make the world better, you can help by speaking to others about what you believe and by standing up for those who need help.&nbsp; It is important that we all think about the things we can do to make the world a better place.&nbsp; And is important that we have the courage to speak out about things that are unfair or unkind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What can we learn from Malala?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Courage means to be brave even when you are scared.&nbsp; Malala was brave by standing up for girls\u2019 rights to go to school, even when the Taliban government told her not to.&nbsp; She continued to speak out about this even if it meant that she may get hurt because she knew it was an important topic.&nbsp; Going to school is one of the most important ways that people can learn to create a good life for themselves and others.&nbsp; So it is equally important that both boys and girls go to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can all learn from Malala about the importance of education and about the importance of conviction or staying true to your beliefs.&nbsp; Even when it is difficult, it is important to stick with what you believe in and work towards creating a positive world for yourself and others.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malala\u2019s bravery had many positive impacts.&nbsp; One of the most important things that happened because of her bravery was the attention that her story brought to the issue of girls going to school in Pakistan.&nbsp; As a result, Pakistan created its very first Right to Education Bill, which said that all children have the right to go to school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would you like to do to change the world for the better?&nbsp; What can you do to stand up for others and make the world a better place like Malala?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was Malala Yousafzai? 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For the first few years of her life, Malala\u2019s hometown was a popular place for people to visit on vacation.\u00a0 People from around the country would visit the town for summer festivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"right\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/08\/Shinz%C5%8D_Abe_and_Malala_Yousafzai_%281%29_Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Malala Yousafzai\"\/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, the town and the country started to change when a new government took control of the country.\u00a0 A government is a group of people that make decisions about how a country will work and the rules that the people in the country will follow.\u00a0 In Pakistan at the time that Malala was a young girl, a very strict government called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-south-asia-11451718\">the Taliban<\/a> tried to take control.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Who were Malala Yousafzai's parents?<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Malala lived at home with her father and mother when she was a girl.\u00a0 Her father\u2019s name was <strong>Ziauddin Yousafzai<\/strong> and he was a schoolmaster at a local school and someone who believed strongly in his ideas that all children should go to school. Malala\u2019s mother\u2019s name was <strong>Toorpekai Yousafzai<\/strong> and she cared for Malala and her siblings.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Taliban told people from Pakistan that they should not let girls go to school anymore.\u00a0 It was an old-fashioned idea that they wanted to bring back to the country.\u00a0 However, Malala\u2019s father disagreed with this idea.\u00a0 He thought that all kids should get to go to school so that they could learn important life skills and take care of themselves and get good jobs.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Listen to the audio<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:html -->\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-8772042\"><\/div>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/bedtimehistory.buzzsprout.com\/1120928\/3932225-malala-yousafzai.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-8772042&amp;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<!-- \/wp:html -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Early Life<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Malala\u2019s father ran one of the last girl's schools that continued to run even though the Taliban government told all the girl's schools to shut down. Instead of listening to the government\u2019s orders, Malala\u2019s dad kept letting girls attend his school, including Malala.\u00a0 He encouraged her to speak out about what the government was doing. Malala learned from a very early age that this was very important to girls and to her country.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Malala listened to her father and on September 1, 2008, when she was 11 years old, she gave her first speech at a community hall in Peshawar.\u00a0 The title of her speech was, \"How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?\"\u00a0 It was a speech that was about her opinion that the Taliban government should not close down girls' schools or forbid them from attending.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>In Trouble with The Taliban<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was a scary time in Pakistan for people to speak out about the government.\u00a0 The Taliban government was very strict and very powerful.\u00a0 Strict means telling people that they have to behave a certain way and exactly what they have to do so they won\u2019t get in trouble.\u00a0 They scared Malala and others who spoke out about them and disagreed with what they were doing.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Because Malala did not want to get in trouble, she started writing using a fake name to write articles: <strong>Gul Makai<\/strong>.\u00a0 She wrote articles on the internet for a famous news company from Britain called the BBC.\u00a0 Malala wrote about what it was like to live with such a strict government and the articles were published for people from all around the world to see.\u00a0 She thought she was safe because her identity was secret.\u00a0 However, someone found out who she was and told other people that it was Malala who was writing the articles.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Taliban government was angry at Malala for saying bad things about them and the things that they believed and their rules.&nbsp; They decided that they wanted to kill Malala and her family so that she could not speak out about them anymore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Even though Malala was frightened for her family\u2019s safety, she didn\u2019t think that the Taliban government would hurt her because she was a kid and so she carried on with her speeches. One day when she was 15 years old and riding the bus home from school, some Taliban people got on the bus and shot her.\u00a0 She was hurt very badly but she did not die.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Malala's Life In Crisis<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Malala needed to go to a special hospital, so she got flown out of her country of Pakistan on an airplane to England. Once she was in England, she was safe from the Taliban government but she was still very hurt.\u00a0 She had to have a number of surgeries at a hospital in order to get better.\u00a0 She healed very well and within one year, she was able to start going to school again.\u00a0 This time she stayed in England and went to school there.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Malala Speaks Out<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Later that year, after Malala was feeling better, she was invited to speak at the United Nations in New York City, in America.\u00a0 It was the first time that she spoke in public again since she was attacked.\u00a0 Malala\u2019s speech was on her 16th birthday and her topic was the rights of every child to go to school.\u00a0 She said in her speech that all governments around the world should make policies that allow girls to go to school.\u00a0 Policies mean a rule or law that allows people to do something.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the speeches she gave after her attack, Malala talked about the courage that she had developed after her injury.\u00a0 She said that the Taliban government \u201cthought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage were born.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Malala received a lot of awards for her bravery.\u00a0 When she was 15 she published a book about her life called, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Am-Malala-Education-Changed-Readers\/dp\/031632793X\">I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 One of the most important awards that she received was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/hrprize.aspx\">United Nations Human Rights Prize<\/a>, which is an important award that is only given every five years.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Nobel Peace Prize<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Another important award Malala received was the <strong>Nobel Peace Prize<\/strong>. She was 17 when she received it, and she was the youngest person to ever get the award. When Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif said: Malala \u201cis (the) pride of Pakistan, she has made her countrymen proud. Her achievement is unparalleled and unequaled. Girls and boys of the world should take lead from her struggle and commitment.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"left\",\"width\":411,\"height\":275,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c3\/John_Lewis_meets_with_Malala_Yousafzai_at_US_Capitol.jpg\/2560px-John_Lewis_meets_with_Malala_Yousafzai_at_US_Capitol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"275\"\/><figcaption><em>Malala and civil rights leader John Lewis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the same time, former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Malala was \"a brave and gentle advocate of peace who, through the simple act of going to school, became a global teacher.\u201d\u00a0 In Malala\u2019s 2013 speech at the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that July 12th, which is Malala\u2019s birthday,\u00a0 would now be called Malala Day.\u00a0 This was in honor of the work that Malala did to ensure education for all children.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>What does Malala do now?<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Today Malala continues to work to try to help children around the world.\u00a0 She has worked hard to raise money so that other girls can go to school.\u00a0 She is now going to university to study philosophy, politics, and economics.\u00a0 These are subjects that teach people how the world works and how to make it a better place through rules and policies.\u00a0 Malala plans to continue to work to make the 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