She live in a town in Afghanistan and the Taliban conquered her town and forbade young girls from going to school, including Sultana, and they directly threatened her with physical violence if she even dared. And to appreciate how much potential there is, I’ll tell you one story about a young girl named Sultana. We have the vision of reaching everyone whether it is a young girl in a village, in a slum outside of Bombay, or whether it’s a young boy in Oviedo or New York who is struggling, but dreams of making something of themselves. And as far as we’ve come so far –and I have to be clear, Khan Academy is much more than me there are thousands of people who volunteer and hundreds of thousands of people who’ve donated, hundreds of people who work with me full time– and what I tell all of them is that as far as we’ve come, there’s far, far more to do. There are over 40 translation projects around the world and I am happy to say that Spanish is the most developed of those projects. For a teacher, we hope that we can be their teaching assistant, so that they can better meet the needs of all of their students and have information and help them unblock any struggle they might have. For a student who might not have access to school, we hope they can go to Khan Academy and start from wherever they are and learn whatever they need to do to be a productive member of society. And to understand what it is, imagine learners around the planet who might have a question, who might be having trouble in school, we want to be the tutor that their family might not be able to afford. And what started a little over a decade ago as a project tutoring one 12-year-old cousin and soon word spread in my family that free tutoring was going on soon spread and now is reaching roughly 100 million learners every year. Thank you so much for this incredible honor.įor those of you who may not be familiar with Khan Academy, we are a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Video: words by Her Royal Highness at the Ceremony.
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