to be a powerful way to unite multiple partners around a shared issue. The consortium model created a strong sense of community, enabling individuals and organizations to stand in solidarity, support one another, and engage in meaningful peer exchange. By bringing together different actors who prioritize this critical issue in their unique ways, the campaign created a collaborative learning environment. Focusing on a single issue across different contexts and countries also expanded the initiative’s reach and leveraged a wide range of expertise. For instance, organizations with limited outreach capacity greatly benefited from the campaign’s broader visibility, helping to maximize impact. / solidarity with statelessness children. And throughout the awareness month, Ambassador Neha Gurung hosted a weekly story-time session on YouTube, sharing excerpts from The Girl Who Lost Her Country, and answering questions submitted from stateless children around the world. These activities provide clear examples that engaging children about their rights is not only possible, but it is also the responsible thing to do. It helps them to understand and destigmatize their own situation, gives them a vocabulary for articulating their experiences and their feelings, and strengthens their agency. NATIONALITY AND STATELESSNESS ARE NOT “TOO COMPLEX” TO ENGAGE WITH CHILDREN Often misconceived as an impenetrably complex or overly technical topic, discussions around nationality and statelessness are usually limited to academic and legal circles, with little recognition that these issues can indeed be discussed in other fora. The awareness campaign demonstrated that, with the right tools and approach, ISI’s complementary resources nationality and statelessness are topics The Girl Who Lost her Country and that can be discussed with children in an the Learning about Statelessness with Neha. The Teaching Guide, appropriate manner. can be used together to engage children, youths and others about nationality and statelessness. The Girl Who Lost her Country is a children’s book which tells the story of a stateless girl called Neha, who travels around the world learning about childhood statelessness in different countries. It helps to demystify the issue and introduce ideas for what kind of action can be taken to address it. The Teaching Guide provides practical guidance to educators who are teaching children about nationality and statelessness, with an array of activities for different settings. These and other resources are freeto-access on the website www.kids.worldsstateless.org In preparation for the awareness month’s activities, ISI provided education resources and training to consortium members on engaging children around nationality and statelessness. By exploring concepts like individual rights, belonging and activism, these training sessions helped to build the capacity of educators to answer difficult questions, like why some children did not have nationality or what action can be taken to counter othering and exclusion. In Bangladesh, Bihari children were inspired to express their feelings about statelessness and access to education through art. In Kenya, Nubian children participated in debate competitions advocating for their right to education under the Kenyan constitution. In the Netherlands, children at an international school designed creative campaigns in Awareness Month around the world 15