The funds come from $450 million given by the MCC last year to boost education and employablity in Morocco.
U.S
first lady Michelle Obama participates in a conversation with Moroccan
adolescent girls moderated by CNNÕs Isha Sesay following the Let Girls
Learn program in Marrakech, Morocco June 28, 2016.
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, her mother and daughters Sasha and Malia were joined by Meryl Streep in Morocco's Marrakesh on Tuesday on a six-day tour to try to promote girls' education.
More
than a third of Morocco's population of 34 million is illiterate - one
of the highest rates in North Africa, and the rate is higher for women
at 41 percent, official data shows.
"I am sitting
here now as the U.S. first lady, talking to you, because of my
education," Michelle Obama told a dozen girls from different towns.
The
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government foreign aid
agency, announced during her visit the allocation of $100 million to be
spent on 100,000 Moroccan students, half of whom will be teenage girls.
The funds come from $450 million given by the MCC last year to boost education and employablity in Morocco.
Michelle
Obama stepped up her campaign for girls' education after Islamist group
Boko Haram seized 276 girls from their school in Nigeria in 2014 and
she highlighted their plight through a Twitter hashtag,
#BringBackOurGirls.
She spent Sunday and Monday in
Liberia, where she visited a U.S. Peace Corps site and a school with
President and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, promoting Let Girls Learn, a U.S. government initiative begun with her husband in 2015.