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Children's Emergency Fund
War, displacement, and disaster turn innocent children into victims, robbing them of their basic rights, dignity, and stability. Using proven play-based approaches, we give children the psychosocial support they need to overcome trauma and learn safely. You can help them.
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2022 Annual Report
Conflict, climate change, economic instability, and the effects of COVID-19 continued to endanger children in 2022. Thanks to our supporters, we protected, educated, and empowered more than 2.78 million children in 15 countries around the world in last year.
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Bridging the Gaps Caused by Displacement
Displacement creates many gaps in children’s lives: children who are refugees are more likely to be out of school than their peers. They are more likely to experience fear, anxiety, and other mental health issues. It can be easy to lose hope.
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ENCOURAGING TINKERING AND BUILDING SKILLS IN CHILDREN
The Plug in Play program is turning the classroom into a playful place where students make, tinker, and code together, exploring the world through their hands and imaginations, and developing academic and holistic skills that support lifelong learning and success.
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Strengthening Literacy and Attitudes Towards Equality
In Mozambique, only 4% of children in third grade read at a grade-appropriate level. But in Namaacha, where this Reading Club operates, things are changing. After school, Reading Club Instructors use games and play-based activities to help children strengthen their understanding of core literacy concepts and practice their reading skills.
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Protecting Children’s Safety and Emotional Well-being Through Play
Child Protection Specialist Huda Ghalegolabi speaks about the impact of conflict and displacement on children, and how play-based psychosocial support programs can help protect children from further harm by enabling them to cope and recover.
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Let Her Play
When girls play, it’s the first step in their journey to becoming powerful, independent women. It sounds simple, but playing ignites a girl’s abilities to take charge of her own life. Sign up to receive some of the real games that girls play in our programs. You can play them with a girl in your life and see for yourself what she learns.
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How parents are supporting children’s learning and development with play
Through Play to Grow, parents learn about more than their children’s social-emotional and educational developmental needs, and they learn skills and strategies to address those needs themselves.
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