Are you in the business of, "am too young to make a change", "I just haven't reached the age yet"; there is a little girl whose life (ended on the 14th Jan 2012) will change your mindset. I hope the life of Arfa inspires you. I believe you can! Read on....
A teenager who at age nine became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional has died after suffering complications resulting from an epileptic stroke.
Arfa Karim Randhawa, 16 from Faisalabad, Pakistan was given the Microsoft Certified Professional award at 9 and was subsequently invited to Microsoft’s headquarters by Bill Gates where she impressed the executives with her programming knowledge.
After Karim fell ill and was taken to hospital, Bill Gates apparently reached out to the family and offered to pay for her medical care, proposing moving Karim to the U.S. for better treatment, although doctors decided it was against her best interests given she was on a ventilator.
FOR all who knew her as well as a citizenry galvanised by her example, it is indeed tragic that a beacon of hope as bright as Arfa Karim Randhawa has been extinguished. The child prodigy became at the age of nine the world`s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. In Pakistan, she was presented the Fatima Jinnah Gold Medal in the field of science and technology and the Salaam Pakistan Youth Award; she was the youngest person ever to be awarded the President`s Award for Pride of Performance.
A source of inspiration for thousands, young Arfa`s ascendant star was cut short by cardiac arrest in December, leading to her death in Lahore on Saturday night. How far she touched the lives of strangers can be gauged from the fact that her funeral procession in her ancestral village of Ramdewali, near Faisalabad wa
s attended by a large number of peo-ple who had never met her.
You can really achieve that which you have set out to do. Your age has never been a barrier....like I said, I believe in you!
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