How to change web browser language settings in Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Click the Firefox Button at the top-left of your browser window (older versions click the Tools menu) and click on the Options menu item
   
   
   
3. The Options window will now be open
   
4. Click on the Content icon at the top of the Option window
5. Under the Languages heading, click the Choose button
   
   
6. You should now see your current language(s) in order of preference from top to bottom
7. To add a language: click the Select a language to add.. drop-down list button, Select a language, and click the Add button
   
8. To change the order of preferred language(s): Select a language, then click the Move Up or Move Down buttons to change the order
   
9. To remove a language: Select the language and click the Remove button
10. When you have finished choosing your languages, click on OK to Languages window, then OK to the Options window
11. Now refresh the webpage (preferably Google.com) to see your language preferences working.

Request to help a rural area Government High School in Mardan

An Email from the Principal of a Govt School

Dear All

I request all the donors, NGOs, Philanthropists and all those who have a soft corner in their hearts for education and consider education essential for the uplift of a society to help (only in kind) Government High School Gaddar Mardan and help the children of have nots to get access to somewhat good education. You may help in all or one of the following areas;

1. Build a classroom

2. Build washrooms

3. Establish computer labs

4. Establish Science Lab

5. Establish Library

6. Provide sports equipment

7. Provide Classroom furniture

8. Provide ceiling fans

9. Provide electric water coolers

10. Repair old furniture

11. Provide furniture for teachers staff room

12. Provide computers

13. Provide printer/s

14. Provide scanner/s

15. Water treatment plant/s

16. Provide tablet/s to teachers and students,

17. etc

This is a very important matter. Take it seriously, plz. You may visit the school personally if you like. We don't prefer cash but need it in kind. The school total strength is 700/-. It has eighteen (18) teachers and is from class 6th to 10th. It has been upgraded to higher secondary level and will be starting first year classes (11th) from next academic year. It is basically a rural area school and very deprived. Your generosity will be remembered for ever by the students, their parents and the local community.

Regards

Ashraf Ali

03018182732

Principal

Government High School Gaddar

Mardan Khyberpakhtunkhwa

An unforgettable experience in my school life

I was standing on the bridge over River Aswan, a tributary of the Nile, returning from school. The orange, andalsuian sun was beating down at the barren, lifeless Sudanese terrain, and I had stopped there to stare at the clash of nature and civilization stretching from beneath the bridge, to as far as the eye could see. This land had a myriad of tales, of famine, and of sparse cultivation, of old people living of whatever the land could provide them, and of children wailing their very existence in this country struck with misfortune.

A tall boy with dark, curly brown hair, dressed only in stained, pale brown shorts, torn towards the knees, approached me. He had a sac laden on his back, heaving down at him, and he was carrying it, walking with lethargy. He dropped his sac beside me, picked up an amulet from among the multitude of brightly colored, intricately made handicraft items, and spoke in an animated manner:

"Me…Marishet, Marishet Dires," and he pointed at himself. "You?"

"I am John Hale," I replied confidently.

"You not from here. Where you come from?" and he made funny hand gestures to complement his poor English.

"Yes, I am not a Sudanian. My father works here for the United Nations Organization. He makes homes and schools for children like you."

"Oh!" He smiled. "Here is souvenir for you, no money, only heart," and he deftly tied the amulet around my wrist.

I looked at the delicate, well decorated amulet colored red, yellow, and green-Rastafarian colors. However what surprised me, was, that he had not asked for money. On the contrary, he asked for something else:

"Now give me pen!" I looked at him quizzically, trying to figure out what a poor, young Sudanian boy would want to do with a pen.

"You see, I go to school, and the pen I use finish up. My family too poor to buy me pen. Please give me pen!" he requested, his eyes shining in anticipation. I took out a pen from my school bag and handed it over to him.

"Thank you!" he said in an appreciative tone. "Now you give me your address, I write to you!" and then he talked of how he wanted to become a doctor or a lawyer, but the school in which he studied was not good.

"I will talk to my father about you, Marishet! I will ask him to make good schools for students like you," I said, as I handed a note bearing my postal and email address, over to him.

That night, I told my father about Marishet and his ambitions. Father told me that UNICEF had already been working on schools in Sudan, and he appreciated Marishet's dreams a lot.

Since that afternoon, I never heard from Marishet again, until years later, when I received an email titled 'Greetings from an African boy'. Soon, I realized, that it was from Marishet, and while I figured out how might that tall and young, but poor Sudanian boy have been exposed to computers and the internet, I read that Marishet had continued going to school, and later, UNICEF had arranged for him to go to London, for higher education. Now, he had ended up at the University of London, studying Medicine. He was grateful for what my father and UNICEF had done for the children of Sudan, and signing off, he had written:

"Thank you for the pen!"

This had indeed been an unforgettable experience in my school life.

 MUHAMMAD AHMED TAJAMMUL

Lahore

 

Pakistan’s 6-year-old becomes youngest Microsoft Certified Professional

 

A 6.5 years old boy, Mehroz Yawar has become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, a private news channel reported on Monday.

Mehroz Yawar, who is the resident of KarimPark in Lahore, passed two Microsoft tests on the same day breaking the previous records of Arfa Karim and Aziz Awan from Pakistan to become the youngest Microsoft Certified Technologist and Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate.

He declared his achievement as the grace of Almighty Allah and hard work of his tutors.

Hafiz Bilal, tutor of Mehroz Yawar said Pakistan is not behind of anyone in the world of Knowledge.

He said the accomplishment of Mehroz Yawar, Arfa Karim and Aziz Awan has made Pakistan proud at the time when the country is surrounded by wave of terrorism.

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