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|Description=Join POP-UP Festival in brightening the lives of 3mil kids globally. Since COVID-19, children suffer increasing mental health issues: anxiety, loneliness, isolation. POP-UP is a free event to build emotional intelligence & mental health through play based activities, adaptable to any setting. The digital kit teaches empathy, friendship, optimism, goal setting & emotional literacy, growing lifelong skills. When kids learn to identify & share feelings they have the power to change the future


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=Challenge=
Children's emotional distress is getting worse: bullying, self-esteem, anxiety, etc. According to the WHO, it's urgent to learn new emotional skills: "Children must have a positive sense of identity, the ability to manage thoughts, emotions, as well as to build social relationships, & the aptitude to learn & to acquire an education, to ultimately enable their full active participation in society" (Mental Health Action Plan 2013). But how? What if kids & adults could openly talk about feelings?

=Long-Term Impact=
POP-UP Festivals have doubled in reach each year for three consecutive years. This year 1.6 million people experienced a POP-UP Festival.  Volunteers report a 94% return rate year after year. POP-UP festivals are in 222 countries & territories in 3994 cities, run by 14k volunteers and 45 Mentors. Each new POP-UP event brings skills, fun and optimism to children.  POP-UPs help us achieve SDG #3 by developing youth wellbeing. Powered by emotions, we build capacity to solve the other global goals!

=References=

# https://www.6seconds.org
# https://www.6seconds.org/popup
# https://www.6seconds.org/popup/partner/
# https://www.6seconds.org/popup/map/
# https://www.6seconds.org/popup/kit-2/


=Additional Documentation=
https://www.globalgiving.org//pfil/43375/projdoc.pdf

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|Region=United States
|Resources=['https://www.6seconds.org', 'https://www.6seconds.org/popup', 'https://www.6seconds.org/popup/partner/', 'https://www.6seconds.org/popup/map/', 'https://www.6seconds.org/popup/kit-2/']
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|feature_image=File:ph_43375_166106.jpg|Boys in Delhi at POP-UP
|images=[[File:ph_43375_168521.jpg|Adityapor India with our Partner Cause for Change,File:ph_43375_166102.jpg|Family in Bulgaria at POP-UP,File:ph_43375_166101.jpg|Girls from Croatia at POP-UP,File:ph_43375_166098.jpg|Preschool in Philippines POP-UP,File:ph_43375_166103.jpg|Refugee Children at POP-UP,File:ph_43375_166097.jpg|Class in Ecuador at POP-UP,File:ph_43375_166105.jpg|Class in China POP-UP,]]
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