Ivanka Trump arrives Africa with women initiative project

&NewLine;<p> Ivanka Trump&comma; White House Senior Advisor and second daughter to President Donald Trump&comma; on Sunday&comma; April 14&comma; arrived Addis Ababa&comma; the Ethiopian capital on a four days two-nation visit to Africa to promote the Trump administration’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity initiative&period;<br> She is joined by USAID Administrator&comma; Mark Green&period;<br> During the visit&comma; Trump and Green are expected to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;announce new WGDP deliverables&comma; conduct site visits and host bilateral meetings to promote the three core pillars aimed at driving global women’s economic empowerment throughout Africa&period;”<br> Trump will cap off her trip on Wednesday participating in a dialogue focusing on We-Fi&comma; a &dollar;1 billion World Bank facility she helped roll out in 2017&period; She will discuss women-led businesses alongside the President of Côte d’Ivoire&comma; Alassane Ouattara&comma; and Trump ally and South Carolina Sen&period; Lindsey Graham&comma; among others&period;<br> The Women’s Global Development and Prosperity &lpar;WGPD&rpar; initiative builds on the administration’s national security strategy&comma; that recognizes &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the critical role of women in achieving peace&comma; prosperity&comma; and stability&period;”<br> The fund’s goal is to empower 50 million women in developing countries by 2025&period;<br> Ivanka helped unveil the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity initiative earlier this year&period; Its aim is to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;coordinate efforts across federal agencies” to empower women in developing countries through education&comma; entrepreneurship and eliminating legal&comma; regulatory and cultural barriers to women’s economic participation&period;<br> Even before her time in the White House&comma; Ivanka Trump has styled herself as a champion of women&comma; and since her father’s administration began&comma; has made efforts to build relationships with world leaders&comma; a development that has fuelled a speculation that she may building herself ahead of Presidential pursuit&period;<br> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If she ever wanted to run for president&comma;” the President said in an interview with The Atlantic&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think she’d be very&comma; very hard to beat&comma;” adding that his daughter hasn’t expressed any interest in running to him&period; <br> Born October 30&comma; 1981&comma; Ivanka is an American businesswoman&comma; fashion designer&comma; author&comma; reality television personality&comma; and politician&period; She is the daughter of Donald&&num;8217&semi;s first wife Ivana&period; She is the first Jewish member of a First Family&comma; having converted before marrying her Jewish husband&comma; Jared Kushner&period;<br> The mother of three followed in the footsteps of her great-grandmother Elizabeth&comma; grandfather Fred&comma; and father&comma; serving for a time as an executive vice president of the family-owned Trump Organization&period; She was also a boardroom judge on her father&&num;8217&semi;s TV show The Apprentice&period;<br> In March 2017&comma; she left the Trump Organization and began serving in her father&&num;8217&semi;s presidential administration as an adviser alongside her husband&period; She assumed this official&comma; unpaid position after ethics concerns were raised about her having access to classified material while not being held to the same restrictions as a federal employee&period;<br> She was considered part of the president&&num;8217&semi;s inner circle even before becoming an official employee in his administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;