07/01/2022
This is the story of Arfa Karim Randhawa, a girl born in Faisalabad, Pakistan in 1995. She was only 5 years old when she first saw a computer in her school. Fascinated by it, she demanded her father, who used to work in United Nations Peace keeping force, to buy her a computer. Her dad granted her the wish and bought her a computer. Her father observed her extraordinary skills in using the computer and decided to enroll her in an IT education and training institute near their home in Faisalabad.
She was a fast learner and she excelled at the institute.
Arfa represented Pakistan on various international forums including the TechEd Developers Conference.
She also received the President's Award for Pride of Performance in 2005. A science park in Lahore, the Arfa Software Technology Park, was named after her.
She had big dreams and ambitions. She wanted to graduate from an Ivy League school and work as a software developer. Unfortunately she died in 2004 due to a heart attack, at the young age of 16. She might not be with us but her legacy will always remain with us.
Bill Gates President Bill Clinton Microsoft Microsoft Lumia Microsoft Bing Microsoft Edge Microsoft 365 Microsoft Theater Arfa Karim Foundation
