The One Globe Kids team travels the world to visit real children and their families and spend multiple days recording their story. With the help of technology, children can experience these stories from around the globe, told child-to-child with full-color photographs.
Children can currently visit friends in Haiti, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Burundi, New York City and Israel. They can practice speaking new languages and draw comparisons between their lives. New stories from Israel, Palestine, UK, Greenland, Norway and Indonesia are in production. All stories are currently available in English, French and Dutch, narrated by real children.
One Globe Kids is designed as a friendship experience – child users will feel that they have actually met, visited and befriended a peer elsewhere. This friendship experience is created through both the depth and breadth of the visual story (90+ images), the life-like audio (narrated by a real child, not a child actor), and features that enable children to feel that they are interacting with each new friend.
One Globe Kids is currently available via iOS applications for school and home, and an online platform, each including three elements: My Country stories, Interactive friendship activities, and free Education toolkits. There is no actual contact between the user and the children in the stories. It is a simulated experience, which makes it entirely safe for both participating children and users.
One Globe Kids is evidence based. The content is made in collaboration with academia and backed by 70 years of scientific research on intergroup contact theory, cross-group friendship and imagined contact, which positively influence attitudes and behaviors toward others.
Travel the world with new friends, from the comfort of your living or classroom, and work on intercultural competence!
