Michelle Obama to revisit Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school

Former first lady was inspired to take up educational initiatives after visiting school in London Michelle Obama will return on Monday to th... thumbnail 1 summary
Former first lady was inspired to take up educational initiatives after visiting school in London

Michelle Obama will return on Monday to the London girls’ school that inspired her focus on education when she was US first lady, as part of a one-day UK tour to publicise her memoir.

In 2009 Obama visited Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school (EGA) in Islington, which at the time had 900 refugee pupils in a student body where 55 languages were spoken. In her memoir, Becoming, she recalls: “Looking at the girls, I just began to talk, explaining that though I had come from far away … I was more like them than they knew.”

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