Sesame Street comes to one of the world's largest refugee camps


Grover, a character from the children's TV show 'Sesame Street', meets a child at the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photos: Sesame Workshop/dpa

For most of the hundreds of thousands of children living in one of the world's largest refugee camps in south-east Bangladesh, Noor and Aziz are the first characters who look and sound like them that they've seen on a screen.

Noor and Aziz are the latest Muppet characters from the Sesame Workshop, a non-profit educational institute tied to the five-decade-old Sesame Street children's television show.

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