humansofnewyork:“We found this old box while cleaning the police station a few years ago, and we wer
humansofnewyork:“We found this old box while cleaning the police station a few years ago, and we were about to break it down and destroy it. But I said to Elba: ‘If we could somehow fit inside there, we could start a puppet show.’ So that was the beginning of Lilly and Mo. We did everything ourselves. We made the puppets. We painted the stage. We gave some cake and coffee to the boys in the radio room, and they gave us a transformer. We held our first show for the kids and grandchildren of our colleagues. Our boss let us use his office. We powered everything with an old car battery. One of the puppet’s heads fell off, and the box broke so we fell through the wall, but we eventually figured it out. We’ve done about 200 shows over the last few years. Every week a kindergarten class comes to the station. And on weekends we travel to parks and squares. We’re just trying to teach basic crime prevention. Maybe Lilly will see a fire and call for help. Or a stranger will offer her a ride, and we’ll ask the kids what she should say. A lot of times we forget our lines. But the kids don’t know the story, so they never seem to notice.”(Berlin, Germany) -- source link