The truth is that less than 50% of sub-Saharan children receive even a primary school education. We use sport and play as the vehicle to address this educational imbalance, bringing children together to engage in games and activities to which we attach lessons that offer children a basic education and teach them valuable life skills such as cooperation, team-work, fair-play, and tolerance.

We give local coaches the skills and social-standing in their local communities to lead and take ownership of Right To Play programmes.This improves the capacity of communities and establishes strong community ties between the coaches, the children and their parents, cutting across age, gender and other differences. This is further reinforced through games and through our central message: ‘Take Care of yourself, Take Care of Each Other.’

We work with children from as young as 6 to teach them about how their body works, about how to keep healthy, and how to protect themselves and others from terrible diseases like HIV/AIDS and Malaria. We address the issue of stigma surrounding diseases, and in the interests of inclusivity we encourage children to be tolerant and compassionate to sufferers, and instil in the sufferers the belief that they too have the Right To Play and develop.