Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 1:05:54 GMT -6
The refugee aid organization International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Sesame Street joined forces to create a new version of the children's program designed to help refugee children.
In this way they are working together to provide help in the education of refugee children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
This project won a $100 million grant from the McArthur Foundation to create a program to help with the toxic stress suffered by refugee children in the Middle East.
The objective is to provide the service to Chile Mobile Number List more than one million children, in addition to digital educational content such as on television or cell phones.
Program to help refugee children in the Middle East
The educational project combines the content that Sesame Street has already implemented, with IRC's experience in conflict zones to help refugees and their families face the crisis and build a better world.
In addition to digital, the project also includes safe spaces for children to play and learn, classes and sessions for parents and families, including home visiting programs, there is also an activity guide for the children's caregivers and alliances with governments and non-profit organizations.
The show will be called Ahlan Simsim, which means Welcome Sesame in Arabic. Its protagonists are the puppets of a girl named Basma, a boy named Jad and a mischievous baby goat.
Ahlan Simsim will be broadcast in more than 20 countries in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf starting in February 2020.
Sesame Street addresses current issues
The Sesame program has been characterized by breaking taboos and has demonstrated this in different ways.
A few weeks ago she did it when talking about the addiction problem and shared a video where they introduce Karli, she appears Elmo, whom she thanks for taking care of her while her mother was "in a meeting."
Elmo imagines that this meeting is a typical meeting of friends and assures that he also loves to participate in this type of gathering, however, Karli confesses that her mother goes to a group to help against drug addiction:
“She goes daily to stay healthy. “My mom needs help to be able to take better care of herself.”
Having this new character is part of the producers' decision to align with the Sesame Street initiative in the communities, a digital platform that has multimedia tools in English and Spanish to help the development of children.
Viewers will be able to see that an “adult topic” is addressed in this episode. It was launched by Sesame Street because according to its creators, approximately 5.7 million children under the age of 11 in the United States live in homes where one parent has a substance abuse disorder.