The Girl Talk initiative, a collaboration of Sesame Workshop, World Vision International and World Vision Zimbabwe, is an innovative project to address gaps in pubertal health and menstrual hygiene education among pre-adolescent and adolescent girls and boys in rural Zimbabwe. Girl Talk uses short animated videos, with accompanying print materials, that use stories about a Zimbabwean school girl, Didi, and her female and male friends growing up and helping each other deal with the challenges they face as they enter puberty. Girl Talk materials are all in the local language, Shona, and are designed to foster conversations among the students and teachers about the experiences of puberty and menstruation that are based on science. The Education Development Center (EDC) and the Zimbabwean firm, NGO Consultancy Africa, were contracted by Sesame Workshop to evaluate Girl Talk. Using a quasi-experimental control-group design with repeated measures to assess the impact of Girl Talk on participating students, the research found a significant impact on participating students’ knowledge about puberty and menstruation compared with the control sample.

芝麻研讨会，世界宣明会和津巴布韦宣明会的合作，“女孩谈话”倡议是一个创新项目，旨在解决津巴布韦农村地区青春期前和青春期男女男孩中青春期卫生和月经卫生教育方面的差距。Girl Talk使用简短的动画视频以及随附的印刷材料，使用有关津巴布韦女学生Didi以及她的男女朋友长大的故事，并互相帮助应对他们进入青春期所面临的挑战。Girl Talk资料全部以当地语言Shona编写，旨在促进学生和老师之间关于基于科学的青春期和月经经验的对话。教育发展中心（EDC）和津巴布韦的非政府组织咨询非洲公司，由Sesame Workshop签约，以评估Girl Talk。通过使用准实验对照组的设计和重复测量来评估Girl Talk对参与研究的学生的影响，研究发现与对照样本相比，该研究对参与研究的学生的青春期和月经知识有显着影响。