2023 Mid-Year Impact Report
Welcome Sesame: Supporting families affected by crisis and conflict
Crisis upends life for everyone, but especially the youngest children. With the support of our partners and donors, Sesame Workshop is able to take action for children whose needs are too often overlooked. In the earliest weeks of recent crises, in Ukraine, Türkiye and Syria, Sudan, and beyond, we tapped into our vast library of educational resources and partnered with local organizations to comfort children and keep them learning in their new “for now” homes.
Results in Action
Ukraine
We partnered with Ukrainian broadcaster PlusPlus to bring 140 new animated Sesame Street segments to help children cope with the trauma of displacement, communicate and process what they are experiencing, and develop a sense of belonging in new places. To date, the content is delivering social-emotional learning to 750,000 viewers and counting in Ukraine and neighboring countries.
A series of new live-action short films, created with our Ukrainian advisors and production team, were deployed to help reinforce positive self-identity and celebrate Ukrainian heritage.
We also developed a teacher training guide for educators to use this new content in their classrooms. In training sessions with 154 Ukrainian educators who work with our local partners, a teacher shared:
Our work in Ukraine was recently featured on PBS NewsHour. Correspondent Jane Ferguson spoke with children, parents, and teachers about how the ongoing war is impacting their lives and the ways that our Welcome Sesame content is bringing them much-needed moments of joy and playful learning amid the continuing crisis.
Türkiye and Syria
Following devastating earthquakes that impacted over 18 million across Türkiye and Northwestern Syria — many of whom were already displaced due to ongoing conflict in the region — Sesame Workshop and its partners launched a response campaign promoting mental well-being resources to support the needs of children and caregivers who have experienced traumatic events. The campaign promoted topics including identifying and managing child stress, ensuring that children have a circle of safe, trusted adults for support, and wellness tips from a clinical psychologist.
Groundbreaking humanitarian response
In response to the Syrian refugee crisis, Sesame Workshop launched Ahlan Simsim, a transformational initiative in partnership with the International Rescue Committee. Ahlan Simsim is bringing early childhood development and playful learning to families affected by crisis in the Middle East through direct services integrated with educational media, including a locally produced version of Sesame Street.
We recently unveiled the first results of Ahlan Simsim’s groundbreaking impact:
- Research shows a combination of our Ahlan Simsim 11-week remote preschool program combined with Ahlan Simsim media is comparable to an entire year of in-person preschool
- Children who watch Ahlan Simsim learn how to name and manage big feelings
- Over 23 million children across the Middle East and North Africa have watched Ahlan Simsim, our Arabic-language version of Sesame Street
In response to the Rohingya and Syrian refugee crises, Sesame Workshop set out to deepen its work in crisis and conflict/the work of Ahlan Simsim by launching Play to Learn in 2018. In partnership with BRAC and the International Rescue Committee, this trailblazing program provides children affected by crisis opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. In contexts where children are living through compounded crises including conflict and displacement, pandemic, and natural disasters, Play to Learn is unlocking the power of play to inject hope and joy into their daily lives.
This innovative program is already creating impact in its target geographies and beyond:
- Our Play to Learn program has reached more than 800,000 children, caregivers, and facilitators in Bangladesh, Jordan, and Lebanon to date
- Our all-new library of 140 educational videos has reached more than 30 million viewers in 19 languages in 28 countries to date
Ahlan Simsim Initiative
Bringing vital early education to children affected by conflict and crisis in the Syrian response region.
Play to Learn
Unlocking the power of play for children affected by conflict and crisis
Support for Families Affected by Crisis
Uniting programs around the world to deliver early learning and nurturing care to young children and caregivers affected by crisis.
Lessons and Impacts of the Ahlan Simsim TV Program
A study in pre-primary classrooms in Jordan on children’s emotional development.
An Evaluation of a Phone-Based Parenting Program
A study with Syrian and Jordanian Families with Young Children
Effects of Remote Early Childhood Education
A study conducted with families in hard-to-access settings in Lebanon.
A Letter from the Workshop’s Chief Development Officer
Helping Children
As I complete my second year at Sesame and gratefully consider all we’ve been able to accomplish together, I am struck by how the Workshop has changed over the decades – and equally struck by how it hasn’t. This organization, born of an experiment and dedicated to meeting children’s needs, has stayed nimble – always evolving and stretching to address each new urgency, no matter how unpredictable. Yet, at our core, we remain constant, steadfast in our unchanging mission. To me, two of the most important ingredients for success are dependability and flexibility, and Sesame Workshop is rich in both.
This past year, we expanded our work in Ukraine in new ways, bringing the rigorous research and unbounded creativity Sesame is known for to children and families coping with the perils and disruption of the ongoing war. When we heard young children badly needed support with feelings of self-identity and belonging, we produced five films that promote positive identity and Ukrainian culture through dance, music, food, and language. We launched 140 short, animated films in Ukrainian that brought playful social-emotional learning to over half a million viewers.
That dovetails perfectly with our major new global focus on emotional well-being for young children and families, which we are all excited about and which you’ll be hearing more about as this work progresses.
I’m proud of the work we are doing in these critical areas, and because of that long history of flexibility and dependability, I know we will do the same in the face of any upcoming crisis. Sesame Workshop pledges to be there for families, no matter what. I offer you — our partners and donors, our Board of Trustees, and every friend who reads this note and is moved to support our work — our heartfelt and most sincere thanks.
Hillary Strong
Supporters & Partners
Visionary partners power our mission to help children grow stronger, smarter and kinder. Thanks to their financial and strategic support, Sesame Workshop is reaching more families, educators, and community providers today than ever in our history.
Funding Partners
Meet some amazing organizations collaborating with us on behalf of children around the world.
United Airlines
United Airlines is supporting Sesame Workshop through its Miles on a Mission program, where travelers donate miles and cash to our nonprofit educational organization’s Welcome Sesame initiative. United Airlines has also made a cash donation to support Welcome Sesame which delivers early learning and nurturing care to young children and caregivers affected by crisis.
United States Department of Education
The Department of Education granted Sesame Workshop $4M to expand on the promising results of our community pilots across the United States and to validate those results through rigorous research. The project will result in a package of resources and a training protocol that we hope will prove to be an efficient, effective, and scalable solution to develop social emotional skills and resilience in students, with a focus on K-2nd grade.
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The below is by way of example, your generous donation will be used in a manner that will alleviate the most pressing needs identified by Sesame Workshop.
$20
helps print 4 child-facing storybooks for our Ahlan Simsim program in the Middle East.
$50
helps compile and deliver one early childhood development kit for home-based work in Bangladesh.
$100
helps provide wind up radios with full SD cards to four households.
$250
helps print caregiver-facing content packets that promote nurturing care and support play-based learning for 50 families.
$500
helps purchase and deliver a portable projector package, bringing Sesame video content to learning spaces without electricity.
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helps create a new, illustrated storybook for children living in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps.
$2,500
helps produce at least ten multimedia classroom kits, ultimately reaching thousands of children with Sesame content.
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covers the cost of distribution of one hundred playmats through two strategically selected implementation partners in crisis-affected communities, reaching more than 2,000 children.
March 14, 2023
Sesame Workshop Expands Efforts to Support Ukrainian Children Affected by Ongoing Conflict through New Broadcast
May 16, 2023
New Research Shows Substantial Impact on Children’s Learning from Groundbreaking Ahlan Simsim Initiative Combining Educational Media and Early Childhood Services
March 16, 2023
After Reaching 23 Million Children Across MENA, Ahlan Simsim Debuts New Season, Teaching Young Viewers About Positive Self-Identity
