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Her eight years in the White House are coming to an end. But Michelle Obama is making sure that she�鶹APP�s using her final few months as First Lady of the United States to campaign on a cause close to her heart.

With two daughters, she knows the importance of education for girls �鶹APP� especially those in parts of the world where they are disadvantaged and discriminated against.

Obama launched the initiative earlier this year and recently went to Africa to promote girls�鶹APP� education.

But she also got her message across in an unusual way this week �鶹APP� by singing in a car being driven around the White House by TV star James Corden.

The British host of the Late Late Show in the US has a feature called Carpool Karaoke, in which he chats to famous people and sings along to music on the radio. Michelle Obama was Corden�鶹APP�s guest on July 21.��

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After climbing into his car at the White House, she talked about how she joined Snapchat ahead of her ���鶹APP� so that she could her message across to a younger audience.

In Africa she talked to adolescent girls about their struggle to get into education.

She told Corden about her work to help the 62 million girls globally who aren�鶹APP�t getting an education. Obama said: �鶹APP�We�鶹APP�re really focusing on trying to get girls around the world educated.

�鶹APP�So much could be corrected in the world if girls were educated and had power over their lives.

�鶹APP�My message to kids here is don�鶹APP�t take your education for granted because there are girls around the world who would die to get the education that we have. They would move mountains to make it happen.�鶹APP�

The pair then launched into a singalong version of This Is For My Girls �鶹APP� a song specially written for Let Girls Learn and featuring the voice of Missy Elliott. She suddenly appeared in the back seat to sing along on Carpool Karaoke.

You can watch the full Late Late Show sketch here.

Even before the launch of Let Girls Learn, Obama was a strong advocate for educating all children around the world.

On a trip to China in early 2014, she told high school students: �鶹APP�Education is an important focus for me.��

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�鶹APP�It�鶹APP�s personal, because I wouldn�鶹APP�t be where I am today without my parents investing and pushing me to get a good education.�鶹APP�

She said she and President Barack Obama were determined to use their final three years in the White House and beyond to make education a �鶹APP�key focus of our work�鶹APP�.

The First Lady then became one of many after the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria in April 2014.

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Later that year, she��spoke to world leaders, NGOs and youth activists at a Global Education First Initiative forum titled Quality Education For The World We Want.

The in New York that��attitudes towards girls and women must be changed before the goal of universal schooling can be achieved.

In March 2015, Let Girls Learn was launched as a collaboration between Michelle Obama and the US Peace Corps to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world.

Starting in 11 countries, the plan was to build on the investments and progress that the America government has made in global primary school education.

She added: �鶹APP�These girls are our change-makers �鶹APP� our future doctors and teachers and entrepreneurs. They�鶹APP�re our dreamers and our visionaries who could change the world as we know it.�鶹APP�

Obama then visited Cambodia �鶹APP� one of the 11 featured countries �鶹APP� and visited a school to see up how community-driven solutions are changing girls�鶹APP� lives.

Last summer, she and��gave an emotional speech on the importance of education for girls around the world.

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She said:���鶹APP�There are more than 62 million girls around the world who are not in school�鶹APP� This isn�鶹APP�t just a devastating loss for these girls, it�鶹APP�s a devastating loss for all of us for missing out on their promise.�鶹APP�

Michelle Obama�鶹APP�s husband has also been getting in on the act. At the African Union in Ethiopia last year, the :���鶹APP�If you want your country to grow and succeed, you have to empower your women.�鶹APP�

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He added:���鶹APP�When girls cannot go to school and grow up not knowing how to read or write that denies the world future women engineers, future women doctors, future women business owners, future women presidents. That sets us all back.�鶹APP�