Remember all the inspiring info First Lady Michelle Obama gave us about Let Girls Learn in her exclusive interview with Her Campus a few weeks ago? Today, the First Lady works to put her words into action with a weeklong trip to Doha, Qatar and then Amman, Jordan.
She’ll start out in Doha, speaking at the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education about the importance of educating girls—stressing the fact that educated girls can lift up themselves and their communities. Then she’ll visit U.S. service members stationed in Qatar.
Next she’ll head to Jordan, where the First Lady will visit a school built by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. In Jordan, USAID invested hundreds of millions of dollars in education between 2002 and 2014. They’ve also built 27 schools and rehabbed or renovated 97 existing schools.
In Amman, the First Lady will highlight the work the country has done to educate Syrian children alongside their own children. She will “commend Jordan for its generosity and commitment to educating all children within its borders,” according to a White House press release. Girls in conflict zones such as Syria are much more at risk of dropping out of school, so it’s especially important that other countries step up to educate these children (if you’re not up to date on what’s going on in Syria, here’s a helpful guide to the conflict).
Keep checking here to see more updates about the First lady’s trip!