June 21st - Monday Toronto and Right To Play

  
Monday - I walked about 10 minutes down the street from where Amanda and Ben live to visit Right To Play.  Right To Play is a Canadian based non-profit with headquarters in Toronto and projects in 23 countries.

From the Right To Play website: 

Right To Play is committed to every child’s right to play. We give children a chance to become constructive participants in society, regardless of gender, disability, ethnicity, social background or religion. Through games and sports, we help create social change in communities affected by war, poverty and disease. 


A team of top athletes from more than 40 countries support Right to Play. As role models, these athletes inspire children and raise awareness about Right To Play internationally. Our aim is to engage key decision-makers from the development, sport, business, media and government sectors and further ensure every child benefits from the positive power of sport and play.


Each week, more than 700,000 children take part in regular sport and play activities and a combined total of more than 1 million children attend regular programming and special sports events and festivals. This is made possible by more than 15,000 local Coaches, Teachers and Leaders. 

Right To Play is on the 19th floor next to the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.  


I had the opportunity to meet with some of Amanda's co-workers, Brittany, Meghan, Victoria, Amanda, Heather, Brad, Marijke and Lauren.

In this picture are Lauren, Heather, Marijke, Amanda (She's the one with her eyes closed.  She always closes her eyes because she wants you to see the small pictures that she has on her eye lids.) Next to Amanda is Brad holding a picture of his brand new daughter - congratulations Brad.

Here Lauren explains the importance of CRMID (????)  - Okay - "thanks Lauren."

I would invite all of you that read this blog to check out Right To Play.  They are changing lives all over the world by taking guns out of the hands of young children and replacing them with "play."  I would think that more can be done with a ball to change the world than a bullet.  Of course I could be wrong .... looking at all of the success guns have had ......????????

http://www.righttoplay.com/International/Pages/Home.aspx