International Day of the Girl Brings Attention to Child Marriage, Education

Summary:

Michelle Obama conducted an event at the White House. This event is about the international day of the girls. He talked about the need to expand girl's education. On the same day, Save the Children also published a report about child marriage and other issues relacioned by girls and young women (Every Last Girl: Free to live, free to learn, free from harm). Child marriage is one of the big problems faced by girls. This problem is very serious because every 7 seconds a girl  is marries. That is, if she marries, she drop out school. The report rates the best and worst places to be a girl. Sweden is the best one. In contra, Níger is the worst one.

Mrs. Obama visited Liberia and Morocco last summer. She said many young girls in the two countries struggle to receive an education. In schools girls realize that there is no difference between them and  boys. Moroccan girld say: we have a girl in our group from Morocco who does mechanical stuff. I mean, she’s going to start operating her garage, which is something we thought only boys do.

Opinion:

I am very happy that there are such events because they realize people about the situation of many girls. We have to stop child marriages and convince their parents that education is the best thing for them.

Vocabolary:

CEO: a Corporate Executive Office

Outraged: enfadarse

Struggle: lucha

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