- The first lady announced a new program earlier this year to help adolescent girls in third world nations to attend and stay in school
- She has traveled to Japan, Cambodia and London to promote the initiative and she plans to travel even more following her stint as First Lady
(Daily Mail) – Michelle Obama says she’ll do more foreign travel to promote education for girls in developing countries.
The first lady announced a new program earlier this year to help adolescent girls improve their lives by attending and staying in school called, ‘Let Girls Learn.’
She since has traveled to Japan, Cambodia and London to promote the initiative and even stopped to have tea with Prince Harry.
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Promoting education: First Lady of the Unites States Michelle Obama spoke at the 2015 MORE Impact Awards Luncheon at The Newseum on Monday in Washington D.C.
Promoting education: First Lady of the Unites States Michelle Obama spoke at the 2015 MORE Impact Awards Luncheon at The Newseum on Monday in Washington D.C.
Star-studded event: First Lady Michelle Obama is greeted by actress Robin Wright at the 2015 MORE Impact Awards Luncheon at NEWSEUM on Monday
While in London she traveled with her daughters Malia, 16, 14-year-old Sasha and her mother, Marian Robinson.
Mrs. Obama says the U.S. will continue to urge developed countries to join the effort.
And when they join, she says ‘I’m going to hop on a plane and join them’ to highlight the work.
The first lady says she’ll also visit developing countries to show how the program benefits girls and their communities.
She spoke on Monday in Washington D.C. at an awards luncheon sponsored by the women’s magazine More. Actress Robin Wright was also at the coveted event.
‘This is exactly the kind of work that I plan to do for my remaining time as first lady, and beyond,’ Obama said at More Magazine’s Impact Awards luncheon at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum on Monday.
Obama said that the initiative ‘can’t just be the work of government,’ and that she plans to continue her path even beyond her service as first lady.
KMBZ reports that Obama said that she is no better or smarter than the women she is helping. She said that the difference between her and those in third world nations is that she had access to education.
US First Lady Michelle Obama met Prince Harry in London this month. The US First Lady is travelling with her daughters, Malia and Sasha and her mother, Mrs. Marian Robinson, to continue a global education initiative
Michelle Obama is a pro when it comes to sartorial diplomacy, nearly always wearing designers from the country she’s visiting. And her recent trip to England was no exception.
First she sported a duck egg blue and yellow lace dress by one of Samantha Cameron’s favorite designers, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi. Then she donned this paisley print midi by London-based designer Mary Katranzou to visit a school in London.
Paisley has been doing the rounds this season, thanks to the resurgence of the seventies, and we reckon the First Lady manages to make this classic boho print look positively chic.
You can buy Michelle’s dress (with slightly shorter sleeves) from Saks Fifth Avenue (click right). Alternatively, get the look for less with one of the picks from our edit below.
Perfect if you’ve got a summer wedding or a day at the races coming up, team one of these frocks with nude heels and a box clutch for a ladylike look.
Family affair: While in London, Obama traveled with her daughters Malia (right), 16, 14-year-old daughter Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson
Met young students:: US First Lady Michelle Obama in a courtyard before an event as part of the ‘Let Girls Learn Initiative’ at the Mulberry School for Girls on June 16 in London
‘Instead of having to work or support family, I got to go to school,’ Obama said.
She said that girls all over the world deserve to feel safe and to live up to their true potential.
‘We would never accept a life of dependence and abuse for our girls,’ Obama said during her speech at a lunch sponsored by MORE magazine.
‘We would never allow their bodies to be violated or for their potential to be squandered. We have to ask ourselves, “Why would we accept this fate for any girl on this planet?”‘
Obama said that in some countries, girls are willing to risks their lives in order to get an education so they may as well have a school to fight to attend.
Visted Japan: US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with members of the Akutagawa high school Taiko Club at the Fushimi Inari shrine in March of this year as part of a drive to promote girls’ education around the world
‘These girls are willing to risk their safety, even their lives to get an education,’ she said.
‘So the least we can do is make sure they have a school to attend.’
USA Today reports that Vivian Onano, a 24-year-old women’s advocate from Kenya, says that the only way to end the never ending cycle of poverty in third world countries is to invest in education.
‘It makes me so sad that so many other girls who are equally as smart, who are equally talented don’t have the same opportunity,’ said Onano.
According to data from UNESCO collected n 2012, primary-school-aged aged girls were forced to drop out of school at a rate 1.5 times higher than males.
In Pakistan around 740,000 less girls of primary school age were in school in 2013 than boys of the same age.
In Cambodia: US First Lady Michelle Obama and Cambodian First Lady Bun Rany gesture to students during their visit to a school in Siem Reap province in March to address the crisis of girls education
Forming bonds: US First Lady Michelle Obama hugs students during her visit to a school in Siem Reap province in Cambodia in March during one of the many world stops to promote equal learning
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