U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia will skip Kenya on their trip to Africa on Sunday as part of an effort to promote girls’ education.
According to Reuters, the upcoming, six-day trip will include visits to Morocco and Liberia where she will highlight the work of Let Girls Learn, a U.S. government initiative launched by U.S. President Barack Obama and the first lady in 2015.
The U.S first lady will 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.
In Liberia, she will visit key U.S. facilities and a school accompanied by Liberian President Ellen Johansson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female elected head of state and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Michelle Obama has been passionate about education for young girls and she was behind the twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls when militant islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls in Nigeria.