US pulls plug on Pakistani ‘Sesame Street’:
WASHINGTON – The United States has cut funding to a popular Pakistani version of the children's program "Sesame Street" amid allegations of fraud and abuse, a US official said Tuesday.
The program, run under the umbrella of the US-based Sesame Workshop by a local theater group, had been awarded some $20 million in funds from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Known as "Sim Sim Hamara" it included some of the same furry puppets beloved by children in the West such as Elmo as well as locally developed characters including Baily, a fluffy donkey who wants to be a pop star, and a crocodile, Haseen-o-Jameel, who loves words, rhymes, and songs.
But through an anti
Keep on reading: US pulls plug on Pakistani ‘Sesame Street’
WASHINGTON – The United States has cut funding to a popular Pakistani version of the children's program "Sesame Street" amid allegations of fraud and abuse, a US official said Tuesday.
The program, run under the umbrella of the US-based Sesame Workshop by a local theater group, had been awarded some $20 million in funds from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Known as "Sim Sim Hamara" it included some of the same furry puppets beloved by children in the West such as Elmo as well as locally developed characters including Baily, a fluffy donkey who wants to be a pop star, and a crocodile, Haseen-o-Jameel, who loves words, rhymes, and songs.
But through an anti
Keep on reading: US pulls plug on Pakistani ‘Sesame Street’
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