Mrs.
Mitchelle Obama will begin her two days tour in the UK today, where she will meet Prince Harry and David Cameron and promote her charity work.
Mrs.
Mitchelle Obama’s visit will cover her campaigns for girls' education and better support for
military families. She will also discuss
service personnel families’ issues with Prince Harry.
Mitchelle,
will host an event at a London school to discuss boosting education globally
for adolescent girls.
Later she
will visit Downing Street for tea with David and Samantha Cameron.
While in
the UK, Mrs Obama will be promoting the Let Girls Learn initiative, championed
by her and her husband, US president Barack Obama.
Pupils at
the school will get the chance to question Mrs Obama, who was greeted by US
military families as she stepped off the plane at Stansted Airport on Monday
evening.
She is
being accompanied on her trip by her mother Marian Robinson and two daughters
Sasha and Malia.
Writing in the Financial Times, Mrs Obama said
figures which suggested more than 62 million girls across the world did not go
to school were "a heartbreaking injustice".
Forced
marriages, early pregnancies, abuse and sexism were some of the obstacles to
education faced by girls around the world, she added.
"That
kind of life is unthinkable for the girls in our lives, so why would we accept
this fate for any girl on this planet?" she wrote.
"This
week I will join Prime Minister David Cameron in London to begin to answer that
question, and announce a series of partnerships between the US and UK to
educate adolescent girls in developing countries around the world."
The White
House said Prince Harry was entertaining Mrs Obama in the UK two years after
attending a mother's day tea for military mothers with her, in the United
States.
The US
party will fly on to Italy after the London trip to meet US armed services
families based in Europe, and to continue to promote Mrs Obama's work to
encourage healthy eating among children.
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