Why play?

Development
Play is an essential part of childhood and is critical to child development – laying the foundation for health and well-being throughout life…

Learning
Play is serious business for young learners – improving IQ, problem solving, language development and a whole range of other skills that support learning and educational outcomes…

Trauma
Childhood should be a magical time. Yet for many children it can be a source of significant trauma which can compromise their future potential…

Statistics
Play impacts the day to day experience and education of children as well as future employment and earnings prospects. Check out some of our powerful impact statistics…

“No longer afraid”
When Peter arrived at his new home, a refugee settlement in Uganda, with over 200,000 others, he was afraid and traumatised. His Social Worker, Isaac, told us his story…
Read Peter’s story
Our work
We work with communities to enable them to realise the far-reaching benefits of play for children
We create and implement innovative and exciting playgrounds, play based educational materials and training programmes for disadvantaged communities across the world.
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