What We Do

No Strings International makes films with masters of the original Muppet Show for children in emergencies around the world.

Step One: Children watch one of our puppet films, imaginatively told around a series of life-saving messages or concepts linked to wellbeing.

Step Two: Together, they invent their own stories, taking the film’s key messages and connecting with them on a profound level through puppetry and play: increasingly, we’re adapting activities for families and whole communities, too.

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Our Programmes

  • Time to Wash

        There are many staggering figures about the difference that hand-washing with soap makes to vulnerable communities around the world, children especially. In emergency settings, diarrhoea can account for almost half…

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  • The Magic In You

    Public health & WASH, Trauma Healing and Child Protection, Haiti

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  • Conflict in the Middle East

    Trauma and Peace film projects for Syria’s children

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  • Tales of Disasters

    Natural Disasters Preparedness and Safety (DRR), South East Asia

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  • Chuche-Qhalin

    Landmine Awareness, Afghanistan

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News

 

TALKING POOP IN SOUTH SUDAN 

Report from our February 2017 workshop

 

 

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NO STRINGS HONOURED TO RECEIVE 2016 VILLANOVA PEACE AWARD

No Strings is recognised for its peace-building and trauma-healing work in the Middle East

 

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THE FARMER’S TALE  

A Madagascan fairy story in the face of rapid loss of soil and natural resources, told here through pictures from our first early rough cut

 

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BABY MOSQUITOES! DEADLY STARS OF OUR NEW MALARIA FILM 

Visit our August 2016 Shoot

 

 

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OUR NEW HANDWASHING FILM: GERMS!

Meet Germ Number One as he gears up for his big day on the set of our new Hand Washing film for children and families in South Sudan

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EAT A RAINBOW: MADAGASCAR

Healthy eating for chronically-malnourished children in Madagascar: the first No Strings musical!

 

 

 

 

 

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