US first lady promotes learning to empower Moroccan girls

Joined by her daughters Sasha and Malia Obama, the first lady will venture to Margibi County, Liberia; Marrakech, Morocco; and Madrid for the Let Girls Learn initiative, which will raise awareness about education with a focus on women and girls. The trip is a part of the first lady’s “Let Girls Learn” initiative, where she will travel around the globe to places like Spain and Morocco, hoping to bring attention to the millions of young girls who are denied an education or encouraged not to go to school.

THIS IS WHY THE US$27 MILLION should not just be used to develop new programs, elevate existing programs or leveraging public-private partnerships, but it must also build infrastructures of teaching and learning networks that will provide a haven for young boys and girls to have easier access to education.

The meeting kick started Morocco’s “Let Girls Learn” initiative, which was launched in March 2015 by President Barack Obama and the first lady. Furthermore, this announcement also shared that the U.S. government foreign aid agency, Millennium Challenge Corporation, is working in direct partnership with the Moroccan government; and investing nearly $100 million to help transform secondary-level education there. USAID is also giving $400,000 to create five new girls’ dormitories to improve educational opportunities for girls from rural areas.

‘We need every one of our citizens, boys and girls, to be empowered, ‘ Obama said. These interventions will include: New Accelerated Quality Education (AQE) Activity aimed at training teachers, administrators and policymakers to prevent gender-based violence; Launching the ‘Let Girls Learn Challenge for Liberia; Increasing Support for Out-of-School Girls and Youth; and Providing Support for the Education of Girls with Disabilities.

The First Lady is accompanied in Morocco by her mother, Marian Robinson, as well as her daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama.

“Every single person’s story is different”, said Streep, who advised the young women never to give up and said she was the first in her family to get a university education. In the post, the first lady lamented the economic barriers to education that persist for girls throughout the world.

She said her parents ensured she had a primary school education but discouraged her from focusing her secondary education in science technology, a field dominated by men.

Michelle Obama is expected to attend a traditional iftar dinner in Morocco on Tuesday night with Princess Lalla Salma, the wife of King Mohammed VI, before departing the country. And she shined something even brighter on Liberia. OTHERS TURN to a life of prostitution because they have no other means of livelihood, no other means of support.