<p>"I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated," Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has said in a recorded message.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 15-year-old was shot by a Taliban assassin as she took a bus home from school in Pakistan's northwest region in October 2012. She was flown to Britain shortly after the attack and was treated at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.<br /><br />She said she is “getting better day by day”.<br /><br />The teenager underwent a successful surgery on her skull and ear at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham at the weekend, reported the sun.co.uk.<br /><br />In the message recorded in the days before her latest operation, she spoke of her hopes for the future and the work she wants to carry on through a charitable fund created in her name - the Malala Fund. <br /><br />“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. <br /><br />“It’s just because of the prayers of people. Because all people - men, women, children - all of them have prayed for me," she said.<br /><br />“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. For that reason, we have organised the Malala Fund.” <br /><br />The fund supports her campaign for the right to education for children across the world. <br />The teenager first rose to prominence aged just 11 with a blog for the BBC Urdu service in 2009, in which she described life in Swat during the bloody rule of the Taliban.<br /><br />Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai has now been appointed Pakistan's education attache at the consulate in Birmingham.</p>
<p>"I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated," Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has said in a recorded message.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 15-year-old was shot by a Taliban assassin as she took a bus home from school in Pakistan's northwest region in October 2012. She was flown to Britain shortly after the attack and was treated at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.<br /><br />She said she is “getting better day by day”.<br /><br />The teenager underwent a successful surgery on her skull and ear at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham at the weekend, reported the sun.co.uk.<br /><br />In the message recorded in the days before her latest operation, she spoke of her hopes for the future and the work she wants to carry on through a charitable fund created in her name - the Malala Fund. <br /><br />“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. <br /><br />“It’s just because of the prayers of people. Because all people - men, women, children - all of them have prayed for me," she said.<br /><br />“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. For that reason, we have organised the Malala Fund.” <br /><br />The fund supports her campaign for the right to education for children across the world. <br />The teenager first rose to prominence aged just 11 with a blog for the BBC Urdu service in 2009, in which she described life in Swat during the bloody rule of the Taliban.<br /><br />Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai has now been appointed Pakistan's education attache at the consulate in Birmingham.</p>