First lady Michelle Obama visited a leadership camp for girls in Liberia to launch her latest Africa visit, urging the teens to keep fighting to stay in school.
Joined by her own teenage daughters Sasha and Malia, and her mother Marian Robinson, Mrs. Obama took on a six-day trip to Africa and Spain. Her arrival in Liberia was welcomed with a red carpet and traditional dancers.
Education for girls is the main theme of the first lady's trip, which also includes stops in Morocco and Spain.
USAID also announced to give up to $27 million in funding in Liberia programming for Let Girls Learn, an initiative launched by Mrs. Obama and President Barack Obama last year.
Liberia, which is considered to be one of the world's poorest countries, have been into battle fields for years. Battered by civil wars between 1989 and 2003 and swept by Ebola in 2014.
The country was founded as part of an effort to resettle freed American slaves and has deep ties to the United States. The country's oldest vocational high school, located in Kakata, is named for African-American civil rights activist Booker T. Washington.
The school has suspended their mid-terms exams schedules to start Monday "to allow the students to give Mrs. Obama a rousing welcome to appreciate what the United States has done for us," said principal Harris Tarnue.
Source: Yahoo! News AP
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