Michelle Obama And Her Best Advice To Girls

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Michelle Obama offered advice to a group of young women who are making a big difference in their communities.

The former first lady from the United States, who created the Let Girls Learn initiative to ensure that all girls enjoy the right to education, spoke with a group of girls from all over the world during a Refinery 29 activity. In that exchange with girls From Nepal, Guatemala, Ghana and Chicago, Obama specifically answered a question to a very special young Hispanic woman, according to People.

Alejandra Teleguario Santizo, 16, fights in her native Guatemala to educate and end sexual violence and sexual harassment on the streets in her community, through a local radio program. Teleguario Santizo asked Obama what advice he could give him.

Barack Obama's wife and mother of Sasha and Malia shared the same thought that he instilled in his daughters. “My best advice for girls, -including my own daughters, - is not to be afraid of failure. Sometimes our own fears of failure is what keeps us behind. We think we have to be perfect, that if we make even the smallest mistake, that is a catastrophe, said the American lawyer.

For his part, Obama asked Teleguario Santizo why education is so important in Guatemala. Given this, the young Guatemalan leader explained that her schools lack many basic tools to work; infrastructure elements. From computers, desks to materials. Even Teleguario Santizo indicated that there is a lack of "[academic] curricula that promote both the personal and social development of young girls, particularly indigenous girls." Also, Teleguario Santizo stressed that she wants to become an English teacher because she has seen girls drop out of school or not have the opportunity to go to school or receive a poor quality education.