Michelle Obama Joins ‘Bring Back Our Girl’s’ Campaign
Michelle Obama is the latest big name to join the “Bring Back Our Girl’s” campaign. The campaign was begun in support of the Nigerian school girls who had been kidnapped in the dead of night from their school nearly three weeks ago.
The “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign has gone viral over the past few days, with celebrities and politicians jumping on board according to Mashable. The campaign has gone viral and the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls is bringing in attention from social media accounts world wide.
Michelle Obama took to twitter Wednesday in order to show her support for the campaign by posting an image of herself with a #BringBackOurGirls sign.
Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo pic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt
— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) May 7, 2014
Michelle’s tweet comes one day after her husband, President Barack Obama, announced that the US would be sending a team to Nigeria to assist in finding the missing girls. According to the Huffington Post, Barack Obama said Tuesday that the US will do everything it can to help find the missing girls and bring them home after being kidnapped by the Islamist extremist group, the Boko Haram.
“In the short term, our goal is obviously to help the international community, and the Nigerian government, as a team to do everything we can to recover these young ladies,” Obama reportedly said in an interview with NBC’s Today. “But we’re also going to have to deal with the broader problem of organizations like this that… can cause such havoc in people’s day-to-day lives,” said Obama referring to the Boko Haram.
According to an earlier report by The Inquisitr, the families of the missing girls believe that the government isn’t doing enough to help find the missing school girls who are all between the ages of 16 and 18 years of age. “All we want from the government is to help us bring our children back,” said one father as he wept.
Michelle Obama isn’t the only big name in support of the “Bring Back Our Girl’s” campaign, just check out these posts:
#Malala stands in solidarity with Nigerians & people everywhere calling for action to #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/woAjreav0W
— Malala Fund (@MalalaFund) May 4, 2014
Access to education is a basic right & an unconscionable reason to target innocent girls. We must stand up to terrorism. #BringBackOurGirls
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 4, 2014
Tweets about “#BringBackOurGirls”
[Image via FLOTUS Twitter Feed]
