Sesame Street Goes to Afghanistan
- 13 years ago
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The children's program "Sesame Street" will air on Afghan television for the first time. The series will be broadcast in both the Dari and Pashto language and aims to encourage children to love learning.
Children in Afghanistan soon will be able to start their education the same way as millions of preschoolers elsewhere in the world: by watching the TV series "Sesame Street."
Makers of the show worked with two Afghan television channels and the ministry of education to produce the Afghan series.
The show begins on Thursday (December 1) and aims to encourage a love of learning in Afghanistan's youth.
Around 45 percent of the population is under 15 and many will struggle to get an education.
TOLO TV will broadcast the show in Afghanistan's Dari language.
[Masood Sanjar, Channel Manager at TOLO TV]:
"Sesame Street is undoubtedly the most influential children's television programme in the world. First it broadcasted in 1969 in the United States of America it was it was the first show to effectively use television as the education."
Funded by the U.S. embassy in Kabul the series will also be broadcast in the Pashto language on another channel, LEMARTV.
[Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador for Afghanistan]:
"Teachers will discover that the characters in Sesame Street can help children start school well prepared."
The Afghan education system, suffers from shortages of cash, and infrastructure shattered by years of war.
Crocker says in 2001, only 900,000 children were in school, but that number has risen to more than eight million.
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The children's program "Sesame Street" will air on Afghan television for the first time. The series will be broadcast in both the Dari and Pashto language and aims to encourage children to love learning.
Children in Afghanistan soon will be able to start their education the same way as millions of preschoolers elsewhere in the world: by watching the TV series "Sesame Street."
Makers of the show worked with two Afghan television channels and the ministry of education to produce the Afghan series.
The show begins on Thursday (December 1) and aims to encourage a love of learning in Afghanistan's youth.
Around 45 percent of the population is under 15 and many will struggle to get an education.
TOLO TV will broadcast the show in Afghanistan's Dari language.
[Masood Sanjar, Channel Manager at TOLO TV]:
"Sesame Street is undoubtedly the most influential children's television programme in the world. First it broadcasted in 1969 in the United States of America it was it was the first show to effectively use television as the education."
Funded by the U.S. embassy in Kabul the series will also be broadcast in the Pashto language on another channel, LEMARTV.
[Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador for Afghanistan]:
"Teachers will discover that the characters in Sesame Street can help children start school well prepared."
The Afghan education system, suffers from shortages of cash, and infrastructure shattered by years of war.
Crocker says in 2001, only 900,000 children were in school, but that number has risen to more than eight million.