What's New

• Policy Brief: Accelerating Foundational Learning Through The Power Of Play

  Our new Policy Brief, Accelerating Foundational Learning through Play: An Effective Approach to Improving Literacy, Numeracy, and Socio-Emotional Skills, published in May 2025, explores how play-based learning can help to address learning poverty by creating inclusive and engaging learning environments that support children’s academic and socio-emotional development.

• Canada's Moment To Lead: New Prime Minister Urged To Champion Education For Peace And Security At G7 Summit

  With less than a month to go until the G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis, a coalition of over 40 prominent individuals and global and national organizations today called on Prime Minister Carney to seize a historic opportunity to position Canada as a global leader through a new G7 Education, Peace, and Security Initiative.

• Right To Play International’s President and CEO, Susan McIsaac, to retire after six impactful years

  Susan McIsaac, Right To Play International’s President and CEO since 2019, has announced that she will retire at the end of 2025 after six impactful years of leadership at Right To Play and a 35-year career as an outstanding leader in the nonprofit and international development sectors.

• Right To Play Rwanda in 360

  Experience a day in the life of teachers and students in a Right To Play supported school in Rwanda. Right To Play has been working in Rwanda for over 20 years and, since 2014, we’ve been supporting children’s education through teacher training and by incorporating play in the classroom, fostering active learning environments where children use games and plays to build core literacy, numeracy, and life skills.

• Recovering from Conflict: What Children in Lebanon Need

  The multiple protracted crises in Lebanon compounded by the recent conflict limits children’s access to meaningful learning opportunities and support, deprives them from their social networks and negatively affects their psychosocial well-being, and resilience.

• Plug in Play: Innovating Education Through Play and Technology

  Imagine a classroom where learning is not just about memorizing facts, but about creating, tinkering, and exploring. This is the magic of the Plug in Play project, implemented by Right To Play with support from the LEGO Foundation.  In playful, hands-on lessons, 116,000 students are delving into coding, robotics, and engineering, exploring their creativity, and building essential skills like problem solving, collaboration, and innovation – skills that will help them thrive in school and in life.

• Canada’s G7 Presidency A Key Opportunity to Promote Peace and Prosperity Through Global Education

  As the Government of Canada assumes the G7 presidency in 2025, a coalition of leading humanitarian, development, and advocacy agencies urges the next Prime Minister to secure renewed commitments to global education to combat rising inequality and extremism. Discover how Canada can champion the next generation at the upcoming G7 Leaders’ Summit.

• 25 Years of Impact Through Play

  The world has changed a lot since our founding in 2000, but our commitment to supporting children’s learning and well-being has not. With the support of our donors and partners, we’ve reached millions of children in 47 countries, helping them to stay in school and learn, overcome prejudice, heal from trauma, and develop the skills they need to thrive.

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