Our Grateful Kids Play Families

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who donated to our COVID-19 Community Food Distribution project through our Go Fund Me Campaign! With the help of our dedicated community, we’ve raised over $6,000 to supply items like rice, noodles, maize flour and canned fish to our...

How COVID-19 is Impacting our Communities

Gatagara, Rwanda The spread of COVID-19 is affecting the most vulnerable, especially children and youth. On March 21, the Government of Rwanda issued a country-wide lockdown—still in effect—disallowing movement outside the home and barring inter-city and district...

Jean Souvenir’s Story: the Vital Role of a Coach

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, you can find Souvenir heading down to the field early for informal time. He’s often wearing his signature shirt—a sleeveless, white tunic-style top with a black stripe down the center—and hanging around the wooden goal posts, awaiting Head...

Junior Coach Stories: Solange and Eliezel

This Giving Tuesday, our Sport and Education Fund will help our players achieve brighter futures by assisting players who graduate from our program and pursue higher education or vocational training. Below are the stories of two of our graduates who have stayed...

SMART Goal Setting with Kids Play Rwanda Youth

Our October Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) workshop focused on learning SMART goals. Though players had learned the importance of goal making in the past, they had not yet focused on how to make their goals SMART.  S – Specific: What exactly do you want to...

Inspiring through Morality: Roth’s Story

Growing up in the Kandal Province outside of the hustling and bustling of Phnom Penh, most children are gripped by the harsh reality of pursuing one of two pathways- either becoming a factory worker (joining the 1 in 10 children above the age of seven engaged in child...