“The brilliant team at the Sesame Workshop is using Lily to explain a very complex and heartbreaking problem to young children while showing ways they can help like volunteering for food pantries and donating food to those who may be less fortunate.”
Poverty needs to be explained to kids, and Sesame Street is not shying away from the challenge.
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