Right To Play’s partnership with READ Foundation is making a life-changing difference to children in Lebanon and Tanzania. Thanks to READ Foundation’s invaluable support, our programmes are bringing play and hope to thousands more vulnerable children.

In southern Lebanon, children continue to suffer from the trauma arising from conflict and displacement. In addition to impacting their well-being and disrupting their education, conflict and displacement can be incredibly detrimental to children’s cognitive development and put them at risk of developing mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.

To help Lebanese children heal, we’re providing psychosocial support through play. Right To Play-trained coaches are delivering music, sport, and free-play activities that give children a space to focus on the present, express their emotions, develop life skills, connect with others and help restore a sense of identity and self-worth.

Through the programme, we’re helping nearly one thousand children build resilience through play.

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Two children in southern Lebanon participate in a music-based activity run by Right To Play-trained coaches.

With READ Foundation’s support, we’re also reaching children in the Serengeti and Tarime regions in northern Tanzania. Here, girls face immense obstacles to education and experience the pressures of child marriage and forced labour.

Our programme is helping children – especially girls – overcome barriers to education and stay in school. This is being achieved by training teachers in play-based learning with gender-responsive teaching methods to ensure that the classroom feels like a safe, inclusive and fun place for girls. Our Girls’ Clubs also help build girls’ self-confidence and autonomy, empowering them to resist the pressures to drop out of school because of early pregnancy or marriage.

From Lebanon to Tanzania and beyond, Right To Play is able to help the most vulnerable children gain resilience, confidence and well-being through the transformative power of play. This essential work would be impossible without the generous support of partners like READ Foundation.