Michelle Obama's campaign to educate all girls has seen her meet, hug and chat with youngsters in Cambodia, Japan and Britain this year while shining a light on the world's 62 million girls who do not see the inside of a classroom. This week, the Let Girls Learn initiative that she launched in March takes her to the Middle East, where she will speak at Qatar's World Innovation Summit for Education before going to Jordan to spotlight girl refugees from the civil war in Syria. In a downtrodden district in the capital Amman, she will visit one of the 28 schools that the US has built in a $458m scheme these past five years and meet some of the 1,200 pupils - including 400 Syrian refugee children...
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