Our Stories
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Playday ignites meaning of learning through play in Tanzania
As a way of putting Learning through Play approaches into practice, PlayMatters project in Tanzania held a playday at Kilemba and Kumkugwa Primary School Grounds in Kibondo District in February 2023. The event aimed at creating awareness and…
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Textbooks for School-going Children in Ethiopia
A total of 87,590 textbooks have been distributed to conflict-affected schools in Amhara Region, Ethiopia to support the learning needs of refugees, internally displaced and host community children. Working together with the Regional…
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TeamUp creating a conducive learning environment for children
"Team-team, TeamUp!, Team-team, TeamUp!" These were the words the jolly children at Bright Future Primary School, Palabek Refugee Settlement in Lamwo District were chanting as they got ready for their TeamUp session. The school is among the 5…
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Play ignites Children's learning in BidiBidi Refugee Settlement
Holy Dove Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centre in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Yumbe District is one of the centres hosting 406 children for early learning between the ages 3-12 years. Established in 2016 by Plan International Uganda, the centre…
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1st PlayMatters annual leadership breakfast takes place in Kampala with renewed commitment to support learning through play in 2023 and beyond
The PlayMatters consortium in Uganda held a leadership breakfast meeting on December 6th, 2022. The purpose of this event was for members from the project steering committee and leadership team to interact with each other and share progress made in…
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High-level roundtable discussion on how play-based learning can improve the quality of education in Ethiopia
A high-level discussion on ways of strengthening the implementation of play-based learning in Ethiopia was successfully conducted in Addis Ababa on 16th November 2022. The event marked an important milestone for the PlayMatters consortium…
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Ready, Set, GO! The 2022 Great Ethiopian Run PlayMatters Children's Race takes place in Addis Ababa
Early morning, Saturday November 19, 2022, the Ethiopian Youth Sport Academy was filled with children and their parents who were moving to the sound of the music coming from the stage, while eagerly waiting for the race to begin. 3,000 children from…
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Celebrating Refugee Teachers in Tanzania
Teachers have an incredible amount of power. They have the ability to inspire, to nurture, and to shape the future of children. Everyday, teachers around the world go above and beyond the call of duty to make sure their students have everything they…
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150,000 children to benefit from new Emergency Response Mechanism launched in Amhara, Ethiopia
On 8th October 2022, the IRC managed PlayMatters Ethiopia Emergency Response Mechanism (ERM) was officially launched in Bahir Dar town in the Amhara region of Northern Ethiopia. The 12-month intervention seeks to improve learning conditions in…
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Celebrating World Teacher's Day in Kebribeyah, Ethiopia
On October 11, 2022, in the small town of Kebribeyah at the outskirts of Jigjiga town in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, teachers, parents and students gathered under an evergreen willow tree in the IRC office compound to celebrate International…