Right To Play supports One Million Hockey Legs
Right To Play supports One Million Hockey Legs with their sport and play programs. Right To Play has great experience in this field. One Million Hockey Legs uses games based on the sport and play programs of Right To Play for the physical, cognitive and social-emotional development of the children.
About Right To Play
Right To Play
Right To Play is an international development organization that uses sport and games for the development of important skills and knowledge of children living in developing countries and (post)conflict areas.
Sports and games
Millions of children in the world are affected by violence, illness and poverty and they grow up in a society where there is no structure and where it is not safe. Education and health care are often of poor quality or inaccessible. As a result, these children are vulnerable and do not have the opportunity to develop themselves. Right To Play uses the power of play to make these children more resilient, build their self-esteem and teach them in a playful way about co-operation and responsibility. Our sport and play programs allow children to be a child again and contribute to their development.
Sustainable change
Right To Play works at three levels: that of the child, of the local community and the level of national policy makers. The goal is to realize positive and sustainable change.
Local coaches
Right To Play trains local teachers and youth leaders to organize the sport and play programs. These coaches are all volunteers. We train coaches in 18 countries, mainly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We do this in big cities and rural areas, as well as in refugee camps. The local context is always leading and we work with local partners at every location.
Learning by playing
The Right To Play programs focus on the physical, cognitive and social-emotional development of children and young people. Every sport and play activity has been developed in such a way that children and young people learn from it: we call that ‘experiential learning’.
Local coaches
Right To Play trains local teachers and youth leaders to organize the sport and play programs. These coaches are all volunteers. We train coaches in 18 countries, mainly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We do this in big cities and rural areas, as well as in refugee camps. The local context is always leading and we work with local partners at every location.
Our method: Reflect – Connect – Apply
Within our programs we use a method called Reflect-Connect-Apply. At the end of each activity, the coach leads a discussion, following these three steps. Facilitated by the coach, the children look back at their play experience (Reflect), they are invited to think of similar experiences in their daily life (Connect) and discuss whether they can put to practice the insights gained through play (Apply).
