Apple TV+ announces content creation partnership with Malala
Malala Yousafzai and Apple announce a multi-year programming partnership. On International Women's Day, Apple announced its partnership with the women's rights activist and youngest Nobel Prize winner.
The programming for Apple TV+ will draw on dramas, comedies, documentaries, animation and children's series as well as her ability to inspire people around the world. To this end, the activist has created her own production company called Extracurricular.
"I believe in the power of stories to unite families, forge friendships, build movements and inspire children to dream," said Malala Yousafzai. "And I couldn't ask for a better partner than Apple to help bring these stories to life. I am grateful for the opportunity to support women, young people, writers and artists to reflect the world as they see it."
Malala already has a history of collaborations and a relationship with Apple, as in 2018 the company announced an investment in her fund to advance women's right to education.
That collaboration, after a few months, expanded into Latin America and in places like Brazil, Apple's 10 developer academies work alongside the Malala Foundation. Apple offers technological assistance and a quest for policy change to support girls' education.
Malala published her best-selling memoir at the age of 16, "I Am Malala", and has since written two more books. She also starred in a documentary about her early life and created a digital publication available on Apple News for girls and young women entitled Assembly. Since 2018, young women's stories have been published in over 100 countries and in more than 20 languages.
As a child, Yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education, prompting death threats from the Taliban. On 9 October 2012, she was shot by a man on her way home from school.
She has since continued her fight for education and in 2019 gave a speech to the United Nations. She was awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for her activism.
In 2014, Malala and her father established the Malala Foundation to support and advocate internationally for women and girls. Through this organisation, she met Syrian refugees in Jordan, young students in Kenya and spoke out in Nigeria against the terrorist group Boko Haram.
