There are 5 million refugees from
Syria alone scattered away from their country. The children and families who
fled the bombings that survived need positivity and love. The children need to
be educated in anything else but hate. There is one group that is sharing
lessons to be learned and positivity now across the world. It is Sesame Street!
There are currently Sesame Street
productions all over the world with characters unique to each region. No matter
your traditions or religious beliefs all people need love, understanding and
education. When any of those three things are missing from our lives, we are
all in trouble. Refugees are the newest group that the television show is
reaching out to. Elmo has been a fixture on Sesame Street for over thirty
years. He has delighted generations of children and adults alike. The show is
all about good times and positivity although it does not ignore the real
problems adults and children face every day. The show is a little bit like the psychiatrist
you can’t afford to see but you can see the show every day.
The show now is working with the
International Rescue Committee to bring hope to those who are in despair. The
nightmare in the war in Syria alone has torn millions of children from their
once safe strong homes surrounded with everything they would want to becoming refugees gladly living in a tent sleeping on
the ground. There are many who didn’t even make the struggle to a refugee tent.
Is a tent their new home now? Depressing!
Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan house
most of the refugees that began leaving Syria in 2012. Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue
Committee are building learning centers in the refugee camps and making local
tent visits too. At least there are tents for positivity and learning in the
camps now. An idle mind is a terrible thing to go to waste. The idiot leaders
of countries that think bombing cities are any kind of solution to a problem
as a good thing don’t realize how much damage it
does to innocent lives. Not only are their homes gone but their entire
communities are gone. The leaders always live in their lavish accommodations
and are totally out of touch even with the people they rule over.
They are producing a new version of
Sesame Street now in Arabic that can be viewed in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
What Sesame Street does best is to model inclusion and acceptance. There are
already Sesame Streets all over the world. In India, Mexico and China the shows
are geared to the region’s traditions. The show reached six continents and
countless children. Maybe if a child is raised on Sesame Street they won’t join
ISIS and blow themselves up and kill anyone near them too.
The Sesame Workshop develops new
characters everywhere that children can identify with. The show helps children
deal with social and medical issues. One out of every four children has been
affected by Aids. So they created the
first HIV Positive puppet in Africa. In Afghanistan only 1/3rd of
girls are educated. They created a girl puppet who had self- esteem and wanted
to be educated. The power of media and puppets make people think. The children
sitting in the desert in a tent say that the best thing in their lives is
school. School is simply a larger tent than where they sleep but is full of
joy. At school they learn to share and to care not to kill and learn how to
work a weapon.
Sesame Street is a gift from
creators from the United States to the world. Sesame was built from the people
of America and not our own voted in jaded leaders. We all need to stay positive
and bring the love!
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