VOA · What's Trending Today?
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01This is what's trending today.
02More than 98 million of the world's adolescent girls do not go to school.
03On Thursday, former American First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new program to help empower girls through education.
04The program is called the Global Girls Alliance.
05It plans to support more than 1,500 local organizations that are already working to educate their community's girls.
06The effort will include social fundraising.
07Obama said Thursday on NBC's Today Show, When you educate a girl, you educate a family, a community, a country.
08She said her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, are some of the reasons why this issue means so much to her.
09Her announcement came on International Day of the Girl.
10The United Nations has marked the Day of the Girl on October 11th since 2002.
11The hashtag Day of the Girl became a top-trending topic worldwide on Thursday.
12Michelle Obama and her program did as well.
13The UN chose this year's theme to be With Her, a Skilled Girl Force.
14It explained that more than 600 million young girls will enter the workforce in the next 10 years.
15More than 90% of them live in developing countries where low or no pay, abuse, and exploitation are common.
16The UN says the 2018 Day of the Girl marks the start of a year-long effort to provide girls more chances to gain the skills they need to find better jobs.
17And that's what's trending today.
18I'm Katie Weaver.
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