Syrian children make a new friend: a Sesame Street Muppet
A Muppet named Tonton recently brought a little piece of Sesame Street to a refugee settlement in Lebanon. The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Street are working together to help millions of refugee children around the world learn, grow and thrive. The partnership has just been selected as a finalist in the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change grant competition.
Update, Dec. 20, 2017: Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee awarded $100 million for early childhood education of Syrian refugees