http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2011/04/25/av.bruktawit.tigabu.bk.a.cnn?iref=allsearch
Brooke T is a childhood teacher in Ethiopia. The education system doesn't start there until 1st grade where the students come in on the first day expecting to have already known the basics such as ABS's. Brooke wanted to be able to help these students before they got into first grade learn because many do not have anyone to teach them. Then the students are already behind when the start school. Brooke and her husband came up with a program called Education Media to help children learn while they are watching tv. It is on the only network in Ethiopia called National TV. The show is a puppet show with the main character names Sime. During the different shows they go over key things that children need to be taught like: cleanliness, being truthful, honesty, eating healths, how to prevent diseases and that reading is fun! The audience for these shows is preschool age to prepare them for when they enter 1st grade.
I think it is great that Brooke created this show. There are many educational shows here in the US and it is very vital to our learning experience. Kids are getting much smarter and part of that is because they pick up on what they are watching at a much younger age. Other countries need to pick up on that and create more shows so that we can reach out to these children.
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