US First Lady Michelle Obama made a big announcement for boosting up girls' education as part of her 'Let Girls Learn' campaign on her recent visit to Morocco. She was accompanied by renowned actresses and education advocates Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto.
Let Girls Learn is a United States government initiative to ensure adolescent girls get the education they deserve. Around the world, girls face intricate physical, cultural, and financial barriers in accessing education. As a girl grows older the fight to get an education becomes even harder. We know that educating girls can transform lives, families, communities, and entire countries. When girls are educated, they lead healthier and more productive lives. They gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to break the cycle of poverty and help strengthen their societies. This initiative has promoted girl education across the world and is started by US First lady, Michelle Obama. She says, I SEE MYSELF IN THESE GIRLS, I SEE MY DAUGHTERS IN THESE GIRLS, AND I SIMPLY CANNOT WALK AWAY FROM THEM.
She announced the grant of $100 million from the Millennium Challenge Corporation which a US foreign-aid agency. This grant is allotted to create a new model for secondary education. This initiative is also the motivation behind government of India's Beti Bachao, Beti Padhaao initiative. This meeting was held in Morocco where literacy among females aged 15 and older in Morocco was 58.8% as compared to 78.6% among males as of 2015. It is told to the people of the nation that to achieve its global goals Morocco should focus in improving education quality especially for girls. And also, Morocco should take full advantage of the Let Girls Learn initiative and boost education for its girls and women.
"Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world, impact my life in Washington, D.C. Because if we aren't empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we're not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind. So we have to change those notions that girls are only valuable for their reproductive capacity, or their ability to do manual labor. We need every one of our citizens, boys and girls, to be educated and involved and empowered." Obama told the audience. In the audience, there were many families most of which had local girls who were the first in their families to go to high school. "I'm traveling with my mother and my two daughters. This is the special girl-power unit of the Obama household. We left the president behind because he's a boy". She said, adding with a laugh. This initiative will help girl education globally.
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