God blesses some people. They enter our lives and become a part of our memories, and their disappearance leaves a void in our hearts. Arfa Karim Randhawa is one of these personalities.
Today we will talk about Arfa karim biography, her achievements and specialities in detail:
Who is Arfa Karim?
Because of her excellent mind, Arfa Karim Randhawa established a large reputation at a young age. At nine, she earned the world’s youngest, Microsoft Certified Professional.
She had a wonderful personality that made the country proud of her. Bill Gates was so impressed with Arfa after she passed the Microsoft exam in 2004 and he invited her to the company’s US headquarters.
When Bill Gates gets to know about her illness, he donated medical help and kept in touch with her family.
Arfa Kareem Age:
She was born in Faisalabad on February 2, 1995, and died on January 14, 2012, from cardiac arrest. Capricorn was her zodiac sign. Her ethnicity was Punjabi Jutt. Amjad Abdul Karim Randhawa is her father’s name, and Samina Amjad is her mother’s.
Inspirational Story of Arfa Karim
In an interview, Arfa Karim’s mother stated,
“In 2004, Arfa Karim, when she was only nine years old, became famous by getting her name in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional” (MCP).
She was a bright, well-behaved, and energetic girl. She was so imaginative that she composed her first poem when she was five years old. Sufi poetry by Allama Iqbal and Baba Bulleh Shah helped her widen her horizons and visions.
She has a latent ability to be curious about everything in her environment. When she saw a desktop pc at school, her inner interest aroused, and she fantasized about exploring it. She persuaded her father to purchase that high-end item for her.
When she got it, she researched many aspects of it. She grabbed the fundamentals. Her father enrolled her in a computer training program, but they refused to instruct her because of her small size.
The instructor asked Arfa to get the MCP Certificate . She studied till the wee hours of the night to pass the exam.
And when she did, she was asked to see Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Cooperation. Bill Gates was impressed in less than 10 minutes. She expressed her desire to establish a Digicon Valley in Pakistan.
She was a girl with many skills. She received her pilot’s license on August 2, 2005, after completing three trials in Dubai. Her mind-blowing and overwhelming brilliance astounded everyone.
Arfa was one of five thousand people from all over the world invited to attend a Developer Conference in Barcelona in 2006, since she was such a genius with Pakistani nationality.
She was also the brand ambassador to Pakistan Telecommunication Company’s EVO 3G wireless Broadband Service.
Arfa Karim Specialties
- She possesses a God-given talent. Her mentality was outstanding.
- Her intelligence gave her ever-increasing confidence in her ability to move forward.
- This amazing girl represented her country at an international level and has made us proud.
- Ideas that are motivating and important to the people of the country.
- Arfa theme is always about education in every speech and interview.
- Her belief is that everyone can make a difference in the world if they have a positive attitude.
- She believed that rather than awaiting someone else to do the good deed, we should do it ourselves.
Arfa Karim Achievements
- In 2004, at nine, she was the world’s youngest Microsoft-certified professional (MCPS).
- The “Fatima Jinnah Gold Medal” in Science and Technology, presented by Pakistan’s Prime Minister.
- The president of Pakistan presented her with the “Salaam Pakistan Youth Award.”
- They selected Arfa Karim brand ambassador of Pakistan Telecommunication Company’s 3G wireless Broad Band service dubbed EVO, and she received an award for Pride of Performance.
Arfa Karim Death Reason
In the year 2012, Arfa died at sixteen. She was in her second year of A-level studies at the time. She had gone into cardiac arrest. Following an epileptic fit, she suffered a heart attack.
On January 9, 2012, Bill Gates, the chairperson of Microsoft, contacted Arfa’s doctors and requested that they look into every possible way to save her life. Bill Gates also sought the help of a foreign panel of doctors, who communicated with Arfa’s doctor via teleconference.
This panel was really helpful in identifying and treating her disease. She couldn’t travel to another country for treatment because she was on a ventilator and in a critical state. Bill Gates also covers all of her medical costs.
She improved and her health improved as certain regions of her brain healed, but all of her efforts were futile when she died on January 14th, at 16.
In Lahore, she already has a technological park named after her. Pakistan’s IT industry is also mourning her death.
Arfa is no longer living, yet she lives on in our hearts. Her contributions in the Microsoft segment for our homeland will be remembered by the nation.That is why, every year on the 2nd of February, many groups commemorate her birthday.
