Since its launch in March 2013, Let Girls Learn has garnered hundreds of millions of dollars from the US government and governments around the world (including $340 million from Japan) to encourage the education of girls globally. An initiative that stems from the government funded Peace Corps, it was very much Michelle Obama's brainchild and baby but seems to face a withdrawal of funds under the Trump administration. Some have suggested this is inspired by a desire on behalf of the Trump administration to take revenge on the Obamas. However, the official government position is that the US remains as committed as ever to girls education across the World, and that the interests of girls education wil be served better by other institutions and initiatives than Let Girls Learn.

As well as creating education 'camps' many of the projects investe in have been smaller community focused, bottom up projects in plaes such as Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Running alongside direct projects have been successful attempts to get governments and institutions around the world to give guarantees and make stronger commitments to furthering girls education. Although this may sound vague and hard to pin down the value of, it has resulted in clear successes such as the commitment by the World Bank to invest 2.5 billion between 2016 and 2021 into projects that directly improve the education of adolescent girls.

In partnership with the UK's department for education, USAID invested $25 million in 2016 into a teacher apprenticeship program in Afghanistan, targetting adolescent girls, a country where education for girls is particularly politicised (being opposed with violence and intimidation by the Taliban).

By the end of 2016 Let Girls Learn had 44 participating countries and growing.