Sesame Street’s Rohingya Muppets Help Refugee Children Languishing in Camps
Sesame Street’s Rohingya Muppets Help Refugee Children Languishing in Camps
Meet Noor and Aziz, a pair of six-year-old twins and the latest addition to the world’s favorite fictional neighborhood, Sesame Street. But unlike other beloved characters, the brother and sister live with their family in the world’s largest refugee camp.
There are an estimated one million Rohingya refugees living in cramped, sprawling settlements in southern Bangladesh. More than 740,000 fled there during a bloody 2017 crackdown by the Myanmar military that is now the focus of a genocide case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
More than half of the refugees are children, whose access to formal
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