The special will feature celebrity guests Brad Paisley and his wife, Kimberly Williams Paisley, as well as the regular crew of “Sesame Street” residents, including Elmo, Bert and Grover. “Sesame Street” hopes that the episode will help address issues about poverty and hunger and open up a discussion. The show was funded in part by Walmart, which  donated a $1.5 million grant. The retail chain will be holding screenings in select communities. “We thought long and hard about how do we really represent this from a child’s point of view?” Jeanette Betancourt, Sesame Workshop’s senior vice president for outreach and educational practices, told the New York Times. Sesame Workshop is the non-profit educational organization behind “Sesame Street” and other related projects. “We felt it was best to have this new Muppet take this on in a positive way and a healthy way,” she added. Betancourt said that the team understands it’s hard to talk about such serious issues, and this is one way to address the topic while keeping a hopeful message.