Michelle Obama to visit Africa to highlight girls' education

[Night Watchman]

Source: Jerusalem Post

06/25/2016 05:17

WASHINGTON - US first lady Michelle Obama will travel to Africa on Sunday with daughters Sasha and Malia and her mother as part of an effort to promote girls' education, her office said.

The upcoming, six-day trip will include visits to Morocco and Liberia. She will also visit Spain. The trip will highlight the work of Let Girls Learn, a US government initiative launched by US President Barack Obama and the first lady in 2015.

That project is part of "a US government effort to address the barriers that keep over 62 million girls around the world out of school, particularly adolescent girls," the first lady's chief of staff, Tina Tchen, told reporters on a conference call.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Michelle-Obama-to-visit-Africa-to-highlight-girls-education-457677

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I am really going to miss this First Lady. just like I'm going to miss her husband, the President. Class acts, both of them!

[Laf.La.Dem.]

1. FOX NEWS - will show this trip cost tax payers $500,000,000

[kimbutgar]

2. I remember when Lauea bush took her daughters to Africa

Not a peep out of fox.

[JI7]

6. did someone say it was a success in bringing back the girls ? i'm wondering what the point of this

post is.

the piece in the OP shows this is an area that she cares about.

you act as if she is responsible for what happened to those girls.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Good for her! This is a really important cause!

[Skittles]

5. this is really wonderful

[smirkymonkey]

7. Bravo!

Go Michelle and girls!