In 7 years of maintaining this photo journal I have never devoted a post to a topic entirely unrelated to our family. Today I would like to adopt, as my own daughter, 14-year old Malala Yousafzai from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan. She was named after Malalai of Maiwand, a Pashtun poet and warrior woman. At the age of 11, she began blogging for the BBC under a pseudonym about the atrocities of the Taliban regime and their ban on education for girls. Malala was awarded the first National Peace Award by the Pakistani government last year and was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize by the international children’s advocacy group KidsRights Foundation. She remains a defiant voice against religious extremist views and an outspoken champion for children’s rights.

Yesterday she was shot in the head and neck along with two of her classmates as they were returning home from school by two masked gunmen. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and vowed to try again after learning she had survived. She is now in stable condition after an operation to remove the bullet from her neck.

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Today, I embrace Malala as my own daughter. Today, let her be your daughter as well. Tomorrow, let her be the daughter of all nations and let us all vow to protect her and to punish the cowards who attack our children.