Michelle Obama promotes girls’ education in Asia
First lady Michelle Obama is traveling in Asia this week to promote a new initiative with the Peace Corps aimed at closing the education gap for girls. Around the world, an estimated 62 million girls between the ages of 6 and 15 are not in school. The Peace Corps plans to recruit and train at least 650 new volunteers to help remove the barriers to education in developing countries like Albania, Cambodia, Georgia, and Uganda.
The economic payoff can be significant, says Sarah Lynch, a senior director of the global charity Care, which will help train volunteers. “Investments in girls’ education have proven to go further than any other spending in global development,” she says.
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