Ghana

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RIGHT TO PLAY

An international charity

Helps children

Educates through sport

Trains Coaches and invests in sports equipment and schools

Works with the poorest children in the world

Ghana

Ghana is located on the Gulf of Guinea, only a few degrees north of the equator giving it a warm climate

Ghana has a population of about 23.9 million people and is home to more than 100 different ethnic group.

Obom• a primary and secondary

school, two hours drive into the bush outside Accra.

• Some children walk as far as 7 miles to get to school.

• There are few facilities and bare schoolrooms with no books.

Right to Play uses games and sportto teach children important lessons about things like:

•HIV AIDS•Malaria•Confidence•Leadership skills•Co-operation•Integration

Burma Camp

Nursery school -ages (2-5)

Specially developed games for younger children are used

Happy children

Battorspecial needs

•Special games developed for mentally and physically disabled children at this residential school.

•There are 95 children at this school and 80 children on the waiting list.

Addidome

Effects of Right to Play’s games:

•More children come to school•The health lessons are reaching others in the community

Addidome is a very large school and there are not enough coaches to provide all the children there with Right to Play’s structured games.

Kakumnational park

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