Malala Yousufzai ‘getting better day by day’

By RICHARD VERNALLS
Published on 05/02/2013 00:24

THE Pakistani schoolgirl who survived assassination by the Taleban has said she is “getting better day by day”.

Malala Yousufzai, 15, underwent successful surgery on her skull and ear at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham at the weekend.

She escaped death by a matter of inches when she was shot on 9 October last year – as the bullet entered just above her left eye and ran along her jaw, “grazing” her brain.

In a message recorded in the days before her latest operation, she spoke of her hopes for the future and the work she intends to undertake through a charitable fund which has been created and which bears her name – the Malala Fund.

She said: “Today you can see that I am alive. I can speak, I can see you, I can see everyone and I am getting better day by day.

“It’s just because of the prayers of people. Because all people – men, women, children – all of them have prayed for me.

“And because of all these prayers, God has given me this new life, a second life. And I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.”