The Department of Agriculture and Muntinlupa City’s Gender and Development office’s efforts to educate and empower women was chosen as one of the winners in the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative’s (YSEALI) #LetGirlsLearn search for outstanding endeavours to educate women.
The DA and Muntinlupa City’s GAD Office’s chocolate-making, fish deboning, peanut butter, coco jam and rice cake-making workshop’s won the heart of US First Lady Michelle Obama and was chosen as one of the top four women-education stories in the said search.
YSEALI announced on its Facebook account its search for stories and photos that show efforts to help educate women in support of the First Lady’s trip to Cambodia to promote #LetGirlsLearn, a U.S. government initiative to ensure adolescent girls get the education they deserve, last March 18.
Annray Rivera, Public Relations Officer III of the Office of the Secretary, Department of Agriculture said in her entry, “It is in support of the Honorable First Lady Michelle Obama's trip to Cambodia to promote #LetGirlsLearn that I write to share our humble contributions for the education of the women in our community by teaching them to be an entrepreneurs by helping them add value to agricultural products they can sell as a source of additional income,”
According to Rivera her group were going around Muntinlupa City, Philippines where there is a large numbers of homemakers that need help in their daily subsistence.
First Lady Obama handpicked Rivera’s entry as one of the four best and even flaunted it on her Tweeter account @FLOTUS on March 22.
The American First Lady used the four winning entries in her trip to ASEAN countries promoting #LetGirlsLearn. Launched in 2013, YSEALI is U.S. President Barack Obama’s signature program to strengthen leadership development and networking in ASEAN.
The YSEALI community consists of bright young leaders 18–35 years old from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Philippines, Laos, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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