The MacArthur Foundation will give $100 million to Elmo, Big Bird and their buddies to massively scale up early childhood development programs for Syrian refugees
Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee won a global competition by the MacArthur Foundation seeking solutions to what the judges called "a critical problem of our time."
With this huge grant from the MacArthur Foundation (which also gives to NPR), the IRC and Sesame Workshop plan to launch what they're describing as the "largest early childhood intervention program ever created in a humanitarian setting."
"We know that in their first years of life the trauma that children are experiencing has the greatest impact on them," Westin at Sesame Workshop says. "And yet they receive the least support." This project and this new grant aim to flip that script.
To read more of Jason Beaubien's article, visit, https://www.npr.org/sections/g...paign=&utm_term=
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