Financial Empowerment
Helping kids and families build skills for financial well-being, from resilience to goal-setting, planning, and beyond.
Dream, Save, Do: Empowering the Youngest Savers.
Our Dream, Save, Do initiative helps children plan ahead to achieve their dreams and empowers them to navigate a lifetime of choices, financial and otherwise. For budding savers and spenders, this investment in financial empowerment is a down payment on a lifetime of big plans, healthy choices, and dreams within reach.
In Mexico and Brazil, we use the power of media, our beloved characters, and direct services to support kids and families on their financial empowerment journey, with a special focus on women and girls in underserved ethnic and racial groups. In China, our mass media efforts are complemented with direct implementation in “Adream Centers” that support migrant and other underserved children.
Kids learn about money by example, so we enlist Sesame’s furry pals as role models for saving, spending, and sharing. Full of engaging videos, fun games and activities, and tips for parents and caregivers, our online toolkits inspire kids to set personal goals and make a habit of saving, no matter how modestly.
Video Playlist: Dream, Save, Do International
Chamki, Bel, Lily, and Lola sing about what they want to be when they grow up. They know they are girls and if they dream it they can achieve it!
Dream, Save, Do: Brazil
Brazil celebrates a global initiative of Sesame Street and the MetLife Foundation to help children and their families visualize the future, identify dreams, define goals, and build plans.
Dream, Save, Do: Mexico
Mexico celebrates a global initiative of Sesame Street and the MetLife Foundation to help children and their families visualize the future, identify dreams, define goals, and build plans.
People worldwide who live on less than $2 a day.
Comprising multimedia content including animated and live action segments, interactive games, comics, songs, activity sheets, and caregiver guides, the initial phase of “Dream, Save, Do” used Sesame Workshop’s proven research-driven process and the unique power of the Sesame Street characters to reach audiences both at a mass scale and through local engagement.
Sesame Workshop and MetLife Foundation Expand Dream, Save, Do
(New York, NY, February 7, 2022) – Today, Sesame Workshop and MetLife Foundation announced a new phase of their seven-year partnership.
MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop Expand “Dream, Save, Do: Financial Empowerment for Families”
(New York, NY, February 13, 2019) – Today, Sesame Workshop and MetLife Foundation announced a new phase of “Dream, Save, Do: Financial Empowerment for Families” initiative.
Sesame Street Japan to Host Fourth Japan Education Summit
(Tokyo, Japan) – Sesame Street Japan is hosting the fourth Japan Education Summit on Saturday, January 30th.
“Sesame Street in Kumamoto” Financial Empowerment Film and Panel Debut at TEDxKumamoto
Tokyo, December 11, 2017 – At TEDxKumamoto, MetLife Insurance K.K. (“MetLife Japan”), MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop debuted “Sesame Street in Kumamoto.”
