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FIRST LADY TO CHAT VIA SKYPE WITH GIRLS AROUND THE GLOBE
NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama will mark International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11 by Skyping with girls around the world about education challenges in their lives.
The event is sponsored by Glamour magazine’s The Girl Project, which offers education help to more than 50 million girls worldwide.
Obama will be joined from the Newseum in Washington, D.C., by “Black-ish” actress Yara Shahidi and Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive.
Participating in the event will be girls in Washington, Jordan, Peru, Tanzania and the U.K. The event, with help from cosmetics giant Maybelline New York, kicks off a monthlong campaign by The Girl Project to raise money for education programs.
Glamour will host 100 watch parties in 100 countries.
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October 23, 2016 at 6:45 AM
Michelle La-Vaughn Robinson Obama is an American lawyer, writer, and First Lady of the United States. She is wedded to the 44th and present leader of the United States, Barak Obama. She worked as the connect Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago and the Vice President for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Now she organized a Skype chat with all the girls around the globe on international girl’s day where she discussed about education, and the step is really effective for all the girls.