Two of the world’s most inspiring young activists are singing each other’s praises after meeting for the first time.
Greta Thunberg, 17, andMalala Yousafzai, 22, joined forces on Tuesday in England, posing for a pair of photos at Oxford University, where Yousafzai currently studies politics, philosophy and economics.
“So… today I met my role model. What else can I say?” Thunberg wrote on Twitter alongside two photos of the pair.
Yousafzai shared the snaps, too, first thanking Thunberg on Instagram, and later joking on Twitter, “She’s the only friend I’d skip school for.”
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Her activism has since taken on a life of its own, inspiring hundreds of similar climate strikes around the world as part of the Fridays for Future campaign.
On Tuesday, the pair visited Lady Margaret Hall, one of Oxford’s prestigious colleges, and Thunberg talked to students about “science, voting, the limits of protest, divestment, real zero v net zero” and more, Principal Alan Rusbridger wrote onInstagram.
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Thunberg wrote onTwitterlast week that she was headed to England to take part in a school climate strike in the southwest city of Bristol on Friday.
“You don’t have to grow older to change the world, you can change the world right now,” Yousafzai said in December onA Little Late with Lilly Singh. “I think that’s the message that Greta is giving to young people around the world, that your voice, your activism, is so, so crucial for the change you want to see for your future.”
“I was worried about how I would make friends. People knew me already and that was challenging for me to be there as a student and not to be there as a person who’s already known in the media,” she said. “But once I came, everyone here just welcomed me as a friend and I was just so happy that I am part of Oxford. I am just an Oxford student and I think that’s how they treat me.”
Thunberg, meanwhile, is up for aNobel Peace Prize of her own, as theAssociated Pressreported earlier this month that two Swedish lawmakers have nominated her for the prize one year after she lost out on the prestigious award.
source: people.com
