Michelle Obama goes to Africa to promote girls’ education
Girls' education
Michelle Obama speaks on International Women鶹APPs Day in March, also marking the first anniversary of Let Girls Learn
United States First Lady Michelle Obama travelled to Africa yesterday with daughters Sasha and Malia and her mother as part of an effort to promote girls鶹APP education, her office said.
The six-day trip will include visits to Moroccoand Liberia. She will also visit Spain. The trip will highlightthe work of , a US government initiativelaunched by President Barack Obama and the first lady in2015.
That project is part of 鶹APPa US government effort to addressthe barriers that keep over 62 million girls around the worldout of school, particularly adolescent girls,鶹APP the first lady鶹APPschief of staff, Tina Tchen, told reporters on a conference call.
Michelle Obama will be joined by actresses Meryl Streep andFreida Pinto in Morocco, where they will talk to adolescentgirls on the challenges they face in getting an education, her
office said.
In Liberia, she will visit a US Peace Corps trainingfacility and a school along with Liberian President EllenJohansson Sirleaf, Africa鶹APPs first female elected head of stateand a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Michelle Obama鶹APPs interest in education for young girls washeightened after militant Islamist group Boko Haram seized 276girls from their school in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, in April2014. She highlighted their plight through the Twitter hashtag,#BringBackOurGirls.
鶹APPThis is a unique trip in the sense that the first lady isgoing to three different regions that are important to theUnited States 鶹APP Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and Europe,鶹APP BenRhodes, assistant to the president, told reporters on the samecall.
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