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catbyte

(34,553 posts) Tue Jan 15, 2019, 10:59 AM Jan 2019

Sesame Street characters teach refugee children how to play again.

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These "Sesame Street" characters are helping refugee children learn how to play again! This makes my heart sing and sink at the same time! #Humanity

9:20 AM - Jan 15, 2019

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Sesame Street characters teach refugee children how to play again. (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2019 OP

This movement is sponsored by MontanaMama Jan 2019 #1

Gonna have to watch later when I have some tissues. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2019 #2

Me too. I can't imagine the terror these children have felt or the horrors they've witnessed. Arkansas Granny Jan 2019 #4

Sesame Street has done some AMAZING things regarding education: mucifer Jan 2019 #3

MontanaMama

(23,369 posts)

1. This movement is sponsored by

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Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:04 AM

Jan 2019

Sesame Street Workshop and the LEGO Foundation. Wonderful.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)

2. Gonna have to watch later when I have some tissues.

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Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:07 AM

Jan 2019

Sesame Street and the CTW are such a force of goodness for the world.

And Elmo...he’s a straight up, superstar icon for children around the world.

Rock On, Superstars!

Arkansas Granny

(31,544 posts)

4. Me too. I can't imagine the terror these children have felt or the horrors they've witnessed.

Reply to Cracklin Charlie (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:36 AM

Jan 2019

mucifer

(23,634 posts)

3. Sesame Street has done some AMAZING things regarding education:

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Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:10 AM

Jan 2019

I am a pediatric nurse. If you go on Sesame Street they have free material about families dealing with grief https://sesamestreetformilitaryfamilies.org/topic/grief/?ytid=a2VpflpbOmk

They got a government grant and did a story about Elmo's uncle dying in Afghanistan in the war. But, it's more than the video there is teaching material in there for families and providers.

They also created a muppet in South Africa who has HIV http://www.sesameworkshop.org/what-we-do/our-initiatives/south-africa/

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