U.S. First lady Michelle Obama will travel to Africa on Sunday with her two daughters Malia, 17, and Sasha, 15, and her mother Marian Robinson as part of an effort to promote girls’ education, her office has said.
During their six-day trip, the ladies will visit Morocco and Liberia before going to Spain.
The trip will highlight the work of ‘Let Girls Learn’, a U.S. government initiative launched by the U.S. President Barack Obama and the first lady in 2015.
Michelle Obama will also be joined by actresses Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto in Morocco, where they will talk to adolescent girls on the challenges they face in getting an education, her office said.
In Liberia, she will visit a U.S. Peace Corps training facility and a school along with Liberian President Ellen Johansson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female elected head of state and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
