What's New
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Keeping children learning and mentally strong
Important new funding from the LEGO Foundation will support Right To Play’s COVID-19 response and recovery, to help ensure children continue to have access to high quality education that is safe, active, and engaging.
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CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS
We use the power of play to help the world’s most marginalized children stay mentally strong and become more emotionally resilient. Playing helps children recognize and express their emotions, overcome feelings of isolation and develop positive relationships.
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From Struggle and Survival to Success for Refugee Children
For 33 million children around the world fleeing war, natural disasters, famines, or epidemics, everyday acts of childhood like packing a backpack or running outside are instead acts of survival and struggle. But you can change their story.
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Honouring the Children of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School
We are devastated at the recent news of the discovery of 215 First Nations children's bodies that were found buried at a former Kamloops Indian Residential School last week. As an ally organization, Right To Play stands in solidarity with the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation and all other Indigenous communities in Canada.
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P.O.W.E.R.: Games for Child Development and Learning
The Play Opportunities for Wellness and Education Resource (P.O.W.E.R.) is a collection of 100 gender-responsive play-based learning activities created to support parents, teachers, and others to promote children's learning and development.
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Celebrating the Power of Sport
Sport is more than a crowded arena, an ace, a goal, or a buzzer-beater. It’s helping to overcome trauma and heal from the realities of war. It’s giving a strong voice to those that were rarely heard before. It’s promoting health and preventing disease, teaching fair play, teamwork and peace.
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Advocating for girls’ right to education in Rwanda
In Rwanda, it is common for the burden of household chores and other familial responsibilities to fall to the girls, leaving them with less time for school and play. We're working with the communities to change attitudes and make sure girls have every opportunity the boys do.
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Choose to challenge the rewind for girls
Choose to challenge the rewind. 11.2 million girls could be out of school forever because of COVID-19, their educations cut short by child marriage, early pregnancy, and other social pressures. We can’t let girls’ hopes and dreams be permanently extinguished.
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