Investing In Impact For Refugees Hope
Two Rohingya refugee children have once in a life time moment with Elmo! More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees are now living in Bangladesh – nearly 60 percent of those refugees are children. ©UNHCR/Areez Tanbeen Rahman

The Power of Play, Overcoming Trauma

Despite clear evidence that early childhood interventions have immediate and long-term benefits for both children and their communities, less than 3% of global humanitarian aid is currently dedicated to education, and only a small fraction of that benefits young children.

USA for UNHCR partnered with Sesame Workshop to provide play-based educational content for Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The goal of this content is to help young children mitigate the long term effects of displacement and trauma, and giving them hope in a better future.