Playing For The World

Celebrating the power of sport to unify, amplify and elicit positive change at these 2020 Tokyo Olympics. After a complicated year, the Olympic Games are finally here. And Right To Play Canada is proud to celebrate and support our amazing athlete Ambassadors competing in Tokyo. It’s been an extraordinary year, and we recognize the extraordinary efforts of our athletes to get here.

Celebrating National Indigenous History Month

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. This is a time for people in Canada to come together and celebrate First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples in Canada; a time to reflect on, listen and learn from the diverse experiences and knowledge of Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.

Canada’s commitment to education welcome – but investment fails to reflect growing global need

Right To Play, alongside members of the Canadian International Education Policy Working Group (CIEPWG), welcomes Prime Minister Trudeau’s commitment to tackling the global learning crisis and addressing the stalled progress for education exacerbated by COVID-19.

In the news: the importance of including residential schools in Canadian education

On June 9, 2021, Rachel Mishenene, Right To Play's Executive Director, Indigenous Programs, sat down with CBC News to discuss the importance of including the history of residential schools in Canadian education.

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.

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.

Palestinian Territories Emergency Appeal

Children have been killed and schools damaged during the recent conflict in the Palestinian Territories. Donate today to help extremely vulnerable children recover from trauma and get back to school.

Overcoming displacement and claiming her right to education: Zainab’s story

Since 2015, more than 400,000 refugees have fled civil unrest in Burundi for camps in Tanzania. 17-year-old Zainab joined the Gender Equality Club in her camp, part of an initiative by the “My Education, My Future” program.

Right To Play welcomes G7 commitment on girls’ education, and calls for funding to back ambition

Right To Play, alongside its partners across the Canadian International Education Policy Working Group (CIEPWG), welcomes the newly announced G7 Declaration on Girls’ Education: Recovering from COVID-19 and Unlocking Agenda 2030.

Education is for everyone: Creating inclusive classrooms in Burundi

Girls in returnee communities in Burundi, especially girls with disabilities, struggle to go to and stay in school. Few schools have appropriate washroom facilities, and few teachers are trained in how to ensure the classroom environment is welcoming to girls. Here's how we're helping.

Budget 2021: New resources welcome, but more needed to support the world’s most vulnerable children

The new funding for international assistance and Canada’s global COVID-19 response is welcome, but more is needed to support the world’s most vulnerable children through the pandemic and other crises.

A Win-Win-Win For The Edmonton Oilers And Right To Play's Indigenous Programs

In 2021, with the unprecedented world of COVID-19 and professional hockey games without fans, The Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation offered a creative way to give back to Right To Play. They engaged fans to help raise funds with their 50/50 raffle during the annual ‘Hockey Is For Everyone’ specialty night.

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.

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.

Empowering Indigenous youth with LEGO Bricks

In coordination with Right To Play’s PLAY program, the LEGO Group has donated upcycled LEGO brick donation kits to Indigenous communities across Canada through their Replay program.

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.

Protecting, Educating, and Empowering Children during COVID-19: Q & A with Susan McIsaac, Right To Play’s new CEO

A question and answer session with Susan McIsaac, Right To Play’s new CEO, about how we're supporting children to rise above the challenges impacting them.

Right To Play donne le coup d’envoi au projet de soutien du droit à l’éducation des filles réfugiées du Burundi

Right To Play annonce le lancement de Mon éducation, mon futur (MEMF), un nouveau programme qui améliorera l’accès à l’éducation des filles et des enfants handicapés qui sont devenus réfugiés en raison de la violence ethnique au Burundi.

Keeping Girls in School

Right To Play and Penny Appeal Canada are coming together to empower 16,000 at-risk girls in Pakistan to keep learning and complete their education.

Creating lifelong learners using play

By 2023, we will help over 3 million students in Ghana to stay in school and succeed by helping 75,000 teachers to incorporate learning through play into their lessons, all with the support of the LEGO Foundation.

Right To Play International welcomes Susan McIsaac as new CEO

Right To Play International is delighted to welcome Susan McIsaac as its new CEO. The accomplished nonprofit leader steps into the CEO position at the 20-year-old INGO as it strives to keep children safe and healthy, learning, and mentally strong in the face of COVID-19.

A PARTNERSHIP TO PREVENT DIABETES: SUN LIFE & RIGHT TO PLAY

Since 2015, Sun Life has partnered with Right To Play to support our Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) program.

TransUnion Becomes Presenting Sponsor of Play It Forward

TransUnion is the Presenting Sponsor of Right To Play's "Play It Forward" challenge, a 14-day virtual challenge to help keeps kids, adults, families and corporate teams connected and active during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Staying Strong Despite Crisis in Mali

In Mali, COVID-19 has kept children out of school, and put them in even greater danger of permanently dropping out to become child labourers. Our work seeks to prevent that.

Sadio Mané Joins Right To Play as Global Ambassador

Star footballer, Sadio Mané will use his voice and profile to empower children through sport and education.

#PROFICares Cause Marketing Supports COVID Relief Fund for Right To Play Indigenous Youth Programming

HELP CHILDREN STAND UP TO CRISIS

From COVID-19 and school closures to the Beirut Explosion, it has been a difficult time for children everywhere. But these kids refuse to let disasters, wars, inequality, and the pandemic determine and limit their futures.

Right To Play and the Liverpool FC Foundation Are Working Side by Side to Transform Children's Lives

Right To Play and the Liverpool Football Club Foundation are taking their partnership to a new level, working Side by Side to use the power of sport and play to empower vulnerable children in Bangkok, Liverpool, and beyond.

CEO Kevin Frey leaving Right To Play to head up UN-led global partnership

Right To Play’s CEO, Kevin Frey, will leave the organization at the end of December after a five-year tenure. Nonprofit leader and current Chief Philanthropy Officer Susan McIsaac has been appointed as new CEO.

Putting children first during COVID-19

Amid COVID-19, Right To Play has been taking action to keep children healthy and safe, learning, and mentally strong. We are using the power of play to protect, educate, and empower children to rise above adversity, and help their communities build back stronger.

Right To Play welcomes Dag Skattum as the new Chair of its International Board of Directors

Right To Play is proud to announce Dag Skattum as the new Chair of the organization’s International Board of Directors.

The Beirut Crisis: Helping Children Cope

In the wake of the Beirut explosion, we are providing immediate and holistic support for children so that they can recover from the disaster’s social and emotional effects.

Harnessing Technology to Empower Children

Microsoft has not only helped Right To Play streamline organizational operations, but since 2015 they have been a key supporter of our PLAY program, Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth.

Keeping Kids Learning During School Closures

Keeping children learning amid COVID-19 school closures has been an enormous challenge all around the world. We're reaching millions with daily TV broadcasts in Mozambique that provide play-based lessons while children are home.

Rising Up to Save Lives and Empower Children with Disabilities

A child in Ethiopia dies from waterborne diseases almost every hour. Teaching children about water safety is critical to save lives and reduce the number of children who become seriously ill from preventable waterborne diseases.

Rising Up Against the Mistreatment of Girls

Girls in Mali and Tanzania are fighting back against a surge in abuse in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Broadcasting Hope

How Girls Are Fighting For Their Rights in Rural Tanzania Using the Radio

Keeping Kids Physically Active in Jordan

At the start of quarantine, Right To Play collaborated with the Jordanian Ministry of Education to create a series of exercise videos for children to help keep them active and boost their emotional resilience during challenging times.

Right To Play Program Results and Outlook (2017-2019)

Over the last 3 years we have continued to expand our programs to reach more children in 15 countries, creating new opportunities through play for those in vulnerable situations to experience quality education and acquire the life skills they need to succeed.

Canada’s Vital Role in Getting Refugee Children Back into School

The heads of Right To Play and CODE are urging the Canadian government to support education for the world’s most marginalized children.

Celebrating 20 years of impact

Right To Play is celebrating its 20th anniversary of using the power of play to protect, educate and empower children around the world.

“I felt there was a new world opening for me”: In conversation with Aissa Traore and the Brookings Institution’s Rebecca Winthrop

We spoke to Aissa and Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and Right To Play Board Member, about the barriers girls face in accessing a quality education and how to dismantle them, the effects of the COVID crisis, and the transformative effect of education on a girl’s life and future.

Despite Stay At Home Measures, Creativity and Community Are Thriving In The Play Program

Right To Play's COVID-19 Response

In times like these, our partners make us stronger

Pascal Siakam Gives A Shout Out To MVP Kids

Children’s Mental Health Must Be a Priority As We Fight This Pandemic

The world’s most vulnerable children need support to stay mentally healthy if they are to resume and rebuild their lives.

Play At Home: Games to keep your kids healthy, active, and engaged

A Message of Hope from Malual Bol Kiir

Right To Play alumnus Malual Bol Kiir, who fled war in South Sudan as a child and found his way to peace through the #PowerofPlay, has a message of hope for children in Right To Play programs today. For two decades, we've empowered a generation of children using play and sport to create peace in troubled places.

What are the impacts on children when their schools close?

As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, one of the concerning effects is how much more difficult it will become for children to access the educational opportunities they need to develop and thrive.

An Important Message About COVID-19 from Right To Play

Right To Play’s work on gender equality recognized with funding from Slaight Family Foundation’s new Global Initiative for Women and Girls

Right To Play's Re-brand Wins Strategy Award

Government of Canada announces new collaboration with Right To Play in Senegal

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a new collaboration between the Government of Canada and Right To Play that will create a landmark new program in Senegal.

Right To Play joins organizations across the country to #GoForTheGoals during International Development Week

Superstar Pascal Siakam is Right To Play’s Athlete Hero for 2019

Right To Play and The Silkroad Ensemble Team Up to Empower Vulnerable Youth to Rise

Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian youth perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma and other world-renowned musicians in Qasqas, Beirut.

2018 Annual Report Released

Find out how we helped protect, educate and empower 2.3 million children around the world each year.

Announcing the 2019 Ted Rogers Scholarship Recipients

STWM 2019: Run so children can play

Right To Play @ Women Deliver 2019

Toronto’s Next Generation: Right To Play’s Youth To Youth Leadership Symposium

Right To Play and Liverpool FC Foundation team up in a global partnership to transform children’s lives

Liverpool FC Foundation, the official charity of Liverpool Football Club, is joining Right To Play in a partnership to transform the lives of vulnerable children around the world.

Today We Play: MyBlueprint

WATCH A CLASSROOM TRANSFORM INTO AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Right To Play Palestinian Territories where activities, free play, sports, creative play and teacher-student interaction are the name of the game.

PLAY Program Expands to Labrador

Inspiring a New Generation to Rise

FIFA World Cup winner, Jérôme Boateng shared fun and inspiration with the children in our programs in Accra, Ghana.

Time To PLAY in Squamish First Nation

Right To Play and the Olympic Refuge Foundation Come Together

Right To Play and the Olympic Refuge Foundation join forces to help refugee and host community children and youth living in Jordan rise above social and cultural differences.

Thinking and Playing Outside the Refugee Camp Box

Meet Htoo Htoo, a 12-year-old Karen refugee from Myanmar who recently left Thailand's Umpiem Refugee Camp for the very first time to attend a Play Day with other refugee and host city children.

Its Time to Play Your Part

Their Lives Are Worth More Than Just Guns And Grenades

Help Them Rise

Excellentes nouvelles !

Nous sommes fiers d'annoncer un nouveau partenariat étonnant avec Affaires mondiales Canada pour transformer l'éducation primaire pour les enfants !

Honouring Indigenous Veterans This National Aboriginal Veterans Day

This Sunday: The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon

A Brand New Look!

Helping Children Rise: Right To Play’s The Heroes Gala

Canada Leads the Way on Gender Equality

Le Canada vient en aide aux réfugiés palestiniens

La ministre Bibeau a annoncé que le Canada versera jusqu’à 50 millions de dollars sur deux ans à l’UNRWA afin de venir en aide aux réfugiés palestiniens et également près de 12,5 millions de dollars à l’organisme Right to Play International.

Meet Our 2018 Youth Heroes

Media Advisory: Right To Play's The Heroes Gala

Fundraising gala to honour decorated Olympian, Caroline Ouellette; National Bank President & CEO Louis Vachon; and youth leaders.

Right To Play helps secure a huge win for millions of girls at the G7

A message from our CEO Kevin Frey at the G7 Summit

Congratulations to the 2018 Play Your Part Challenge Winners

Right To Be Heard