Meet Lily, the first homeless 'Sesame Street' character
Signal at how not awesome the US is. Ya have to love Sesame Street, they've been telling kids the truth for decades.
Meet Lily, the first homeless Sesame Street character
Published: Dec 12, 2018 2:23 p.m.
C is for compassion.
Lily, a 7-year-old Sesame Street Muppet, debuted in 2011 to portray food instability. She and her family have since lost their home, the story goes, and are now crashing with friends. The characters return on Wednesday is part of a new childrens homelessness initiative from the makers of Sesame Street, which seeks to help mitigate the impact of the trauma and stigma that result from homelessness.
(S)hes not brand new, but this seemed like a really perfect extension of her story, so that we could use her to help children identify with, Sherrie Westin, president of global impact and philanthropy for the nonprofit Sesame Workshop, told CNN. With any of our initiatives, our hope is that were not only reaching the children who can identify with that Muppet but that were also helping others to have greater empathy and understanding of the issue.
The initiative is part of the Sesame Street in Communities program from Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street. Its aim, Westin said, is to give service providers, parents, teachers tools in order to address homelessness with children, in order to talk about it and raise awareness of the issue from a childs perspective, and also to help children experiencing homelessness feel less alone.
An estimated 2.5 million children in the U.S. experience homelessness every year, according to a 2014 report from the National Center for Family Homelessness shaking out to nearly one in 30 children. In New York City this past October, according to the Coalition for the Homeless, there were 15,572 homeless families with 23,136 homeless children sleeping nightly in the citys municipal shelter system.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meet-lily-the-first-homeless-sesame-street-character-2018-12-12
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)What sort of housing code says its okay to live in a garbage can?
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Aristus
(66,099 posts)"I Love Trash" is his signature song, after all.
The vast majority of homeless people don't choose to be homeless. Despite some ill-informed snarking by repukes, and even people who should know better.