US First Lady Michelle Obama (right) hugs students during her visit to a school in Siem Reap province on March 21, 2015. - AFP
MICHELLE Obama was greeted by flag-waving schoolchildren yesterday during the first trip by a sitting First Lady of the United States (US) to Cambodia as she pushes a US-led initiative to combat a “crisis” in girls’ education.
Obama visited a school on the outskirts of Siem Reap with Bun Rany, the wife of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, to hear first hand from schoolgirls about the problems they face accessing education and staying in school.
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