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Using Sesame Street to reach and teach displaced children

October 22, 2017

The creators of Sesame Street are teaming up with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to teach and comfort children displaced by the civil war in Syria. The project, currently in pilot phase, was recently named a finalist in the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 100&Change competition, which will give $100 million to a "single proposal that promises real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time." Partnership member Hirokazu Yoshikawa directs research and evaluation for the Sesame Workshop-IRC collaboration.

You can learn more on the project website.

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