By Lisa Heydlauff | Founder
It has been a longer journey than we’d expected, yet, finally, we’ve reached the top of the mountain and can see how far we’ve come. The Children’s Scrappy News Service, our original, made in India for a world of children TV show, will air on Sunday, July 1st at 4pm, on Rishtey. Rishtey is a free-to-air channel that is extremely popular in North India, with 25 to 45 million children and families tuning in to watch. We’re delighted it is a Sunday. Sunday always seemed right for a children’s TV show. The Children’s Scrappy News Service is a news-talk-game show run by kids and a robot, in a newsroom made of junk and once-loved-things, kid anchors and their guests get to the bottom of some of the biggest problems that are important to kids: Why is there no place to play? How do we get every dog a job? How do you learn how to swim if you don’t have a swimming pool? From making the switch to clean energy to recycling everything, we believe anyone can be Scrappy. For us Scrappy means to make something out of nothing to change the way things are. Scrappy TV is a prime time TV format. Every Scrappy TV show has a scrappy bot that kids can interact with to answer quiz questions and win scrappy stuff, like backpacks made of recycled things. Scrappy TV also let’s kids know about Scrappy’s APP, scrAPP where kids anywhere in the world can be a part of the movement, becoming reporters to make their own stories or joining our scrappy campaigns such as making a place to play. For schools and kids that are not online, there are scrapbooks made of recycled materials, plastic, cardboard, leaves, that kids can use to explore what is design-thinking, build their own newsrooms and create their own stories. We’re also delighted to have our first series of ‘internationally scrappy’ shows from Mexico City. If you are in India, do tune in July 1st, at 4pm, to watch the show, and every weekend after that, Saturdays and Sundays at 4pm. If you are not in India, you can see what’s happening on www.scrappynews.com, on our Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. The Children’s Scrappy News Service is an idea, concept, platform for children’s voices that we’ve been working on for over three years. Scrappy is designed to launch a nationwide conversation about the skills children should be learning at school and to give children a voice. We’d love to know what you think of Scrappy, hand on our hearts, we believe it’s the best we could do and it comes out of over 15 years of work on the ground with children in offline schools. Thank you for your belief and support. Be Scrappy.
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