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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.
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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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The Power Of Play-Based Learning
We often talk about the power of play, but what do we mean? What’s powerful about play? Play is a universal experience. Across cultures, all people engage in some form of play. And it’s not just for fun. When we play, we learn new skills, develop emotional awareness and skills, learn how communicate with each other, and discover new things about ourselves and the world.
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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.
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Play Changes Everything. So Can Your Donation
Right now, too many children are growing up in crisis. They’ve been displaced by conflict, cut off from education, and forced to take on adult responsibilities far too soon. For them, play isn’t just a break, it’s a lifeline. On June 11, the world is coming together for the International Day of Play, a United Nations recognized moment to champion the power of play. Stand with us in supporting every child's right to play with a donation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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