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l programming about maths, science, health and other topics that will be shown in the camps. They will speak Rohingya, the language of a group of people that the Myanmar authorities have refused to recognise as a legitimate ethnicity. Elements of Sesame Workshop’s curriculum will be dubbed into Rohingya.

“They are among the most marginalised children on Earth,” said Sherrie Weston, president of social impact for the Sesame Workshop, who travelled to the Rohingya refugee camps several times to help formulate the Muppet twins’ characters and story lines. “For most Rohingya children, this will be the very first time that characters in media have looked like them, have sounded like them, and really reflect their rich culture.”

More than half the residents of the Rohingya refugee settlements in Bangladesh are children. Many suffered trauma after security forces in Myanmar forced them out of their villages, murdering some of their fathers and ra**ng their mothers.