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First Lady Trip to Africa to Highlight Educational Obstacles Girls Face
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to visit on Sunday to Africa to advocate for girl?s education.

Obama will highlight among her core initiatives, Let Girls Learn. Sasha and Malia, President Obama and first lady?s daughters, and the girls? grandmother, Marian Robinson, may also be joining the trip with stops in Liberia, Morocco and Spain.

?We believe very strongly that education and the empowerment of young people is going to be critical to an area that has known so much turmoil, particularly given the enormous youth population in those countries,? White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said on Friday.

The first stop is Liberia, where in fact the first lady will attend a meeting with the first elected woman head of state in Africa, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Obama then will go to the Peace Corps training facility in Kakata, Liberia, to consult with women participating at the Girls Leading THE WORLD Program. They will also talk with Peace Corps volunteers and trainees.

The first lady will talk with adolescent girls at Unification Town, also in Liberia, about the obstacles they faced as a way to acquire education. Actor Freida Pinto will join Obama and is schedule to moderate the meeting.
?The conversation will highlight both educational barriers girls face as Liberia moves beyond the Ebola epidemic, and the U.S. government?s efforts to continue to handle those barriers and offer adolescent girls with equitable usage of safe and quality education,? said Tina Tchen, Chief of Staff to the first lady.

Let Girls Learn is a global initiative launched by the president and first lady in 2015. This program addresses the obstacles that keep more than 62 million girls all over the world out of school such as for example forced marriage, poverty, and violence.

White House staff said on Friday that 250 million girls live in poverty, and one out of three girls in developing countries are married by the age of 18. One in nine by 15.

In Morocco, Obama and daughters will be joined by actor Meryl Streep on June 28 and 29 for another conversation to greatly help girls go to school. The country has about 85 percent of girls signed up for school, but the number drops to 14 percent for high school.

The six-day trip ends in Spain, White house staff said.

Spain is a longtime U.S. ally and has dealt with ?significant? economic challenges in recent years.

?The first lady, by visiting these three countries, has the capacity to visit three important regions to america, and can speak not just to government [officials] but to speak to people and to explain that ?a key section of our leadership is what we are able to do to lift up the lives of teenagers, particularly girls,? Rhodes said.

r programming tutorial said CNN films is covering trip charges for both actors. Through the visit, CNN will be filming a documentary in Liberia and Morocco.

Michelle Obama will undoubtedly be using social media to document the trip. She recently joined Snapchat. She is also on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Obama will be writing about the travels in a daily diary at HelloGiggles.com.



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