Little Omo is an inclusive, award-winning brand created by first-time mother Desriee (Founder & CEO) with the mission of providing educational materials and toys that celebrate and teach diverse cultural representation to children. While pregnant with her son Isaiah, Desriee was determined to create products that could teach and celebrate diversity in a fun and engaging way, as there were very few options available in the UK to support this within the early years of a child’s life.
The team at Little Omo is dedicated to ensuring that children from diverse backgrounds feel represented and included. In addition to leading Little Omo, Desriee is an educational consultant, helping children’s settings and organisations become more diverse by integrating inclusive resources and teaching methods into their curriculum and activities.
Our toys and resources are perfect for independent learning as well as family activities. We continue to expand our range to grow alongside your child, reflecting minorities and marginalised cultures. We hope you will join us on this journey of learning, inclusion, and celebration.
Here at Little Omo, our mission is for all children globally to be able to have inclusive resources available for them to learn at school and at home. We want to ensure that diverse educational materials and images of representation are common in spaces that children.
We want our resources to represent community groups inclusively and provide education about diversity, having our product range accessible and supportive of early development builds a new inclusive norm for the exisiting and future generation of children.
We have ensured our learning materials are in line with the EYFS framework; this means our products are recommended to support key early years development and support children's growth holistically. We have been added as a diverse resource to teachers on a platform called pallet by Julian Grenier who wrote the most recent EYFS for 2021.
It's extremely important to our founder Desriee to be able to give back to charities, non-profit organisations and unprivileged children and families. At the Little Omo team, we allow each team member to choose a cause to donate to, that is dear to them. Our most recent donation has been to Books2Africa, who use the money to be able to ship a quantity of books in Africa.