on tuesday, vivian bailey went to the white house where she unexpectedly met president obama and vicepresident joe biden. she was the invited guest of running brook elementary school from her home town in columbia maryland and spent the last 16 years raising money for the school some of which was used to pay for underprivileged students to take field trips. i'm happy to say vivian bailey joins us from silver bring. >> thank you for joining us at al jazeera, "a pleasure to have you on the programme. >> thank you for inviting me. >> you raise said thousands. the school invited you on a field trip your first ever school field trip. not only was it your first, you met the president and the february. it hust have been an -- must have been an exciting day. tell us about it. >> we knew we would have a tour of the white house. we had no idea we'd see the president and the vice president. that was a dream thing, i always wanted to meet the president and the first lady. so it was an exciting awesome, thrilling visit, and i felt very honoured to have been able to meet both the president and the

vivian bailey was invited after someone saw a story about her fundraising for an elementary school. she was greeted by vice president joe biden and then president obama. and spent time with them both in the oval office. earlier today barbara spoke to billy about her trip to 100 pennsylvania avenue. >> so it was an exciting piece of business, and i felt very honored to meet both the president and the vice president. the first lady was not there but she sent a nice letter to me saying that she regretted that she was not there. and i certainly hope to meet her in the future. and i have a hope and wish that at some point we might be able on get the first lady to come out to our school. >> you can watch the rest of barbara's interview with a 97-year-old white house visitor at 11: p.m. pacific. still coming up on the program -- the issues that have students in chile taking to the streets. and plus, two siblings seeking asylum reunited after a harrowing journey. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. good just a few hours the embattled president of the fifa could be leaked to a fifth term.

. >> reporter: vivian bailey has been all around the world and seen a bit of everything in her 97 yearsbut this is the place that she keeps coming back to, the peaceful bench that was dedicated to her outside of the main entrance to running brook elementary school. >> it is miss bailey, you can never stop learning. >> reporter: principal troy todd considers miss bailey the school's guardian angel. she lives nearby here in columbia, maryland never had children of her own, but... >> when people say how many children do you have? with a straight face i said 314. >> reporter: for past 15 years or so she has been raising money for all of her children here,es specially for field trips. >> it is normal. >> because the children out in the western part of the county where we have all these millionaires they get the these fabulous field trips. the parents for these children don't have that type of money, and i'm just determined that our children get the advantage of the field trips. >> reporter: that is because she never got to take any when she was a child. >> i grew up in segregation in tulsa,

. >> on the cult err beat this morning, 97-year-old vivian bailey runs a funding program to help childrenps they otherwise couldn't afford. she never went on one herself. after vice president joe biden heard her story he invited her to the white house. she met with president obama in the oval office and met the white house staff. someone she really wanted to see wasn't there. >> it's an exciting, awesome thrilling visit and i felt very honored to have been able to meet both the president and the vice president. the first lady was not there but sent a letter to me saying that she regretted that she wasn't there. i certainly hope to meet her in the future. i also hope and have a wish that at some time, we might be able to get the first lady to come out to our school. >> bailey was born in 1918. she wasn't allowed to go on field trips and she attended segregated schools. >> coming up from doha, much more on the vote from fifa to elect the next president. the u.s. has said it will not vote again for sitting president seth blatter. that's it for us here in new york. thank you for watching. the