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We build playgrounds where there are none and we work with

others to do the same«

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Who we are

Go Play! is a not-for-profit organization that trains

people to design and build playspaces as a holisticmeans of improving education, health and the well-

being of children in the developing world.

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Who we are

Go Play! evolved to address the importance of play

in education. Play is a genuine expression of achild·s interactions with the world and acts as a

response to master how the world works. Classroom

learning is important, but play is learning put into

practice.

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Past Work

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Past Work

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Past Work

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Past Work

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Past Work

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What problem are we trying to solve?

Lack of facilities

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What problem are we trying to solve?

Play not seen as a valuable part of childhood development

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What problem are we trying to solve?

Improving education

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Mission Statement:

We design and build great

playspaces to improve the

education, health and wellbeingof children in the developing

world, and we support and

train others to do the same.

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Solution: Our playground design

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Solution: Our playground design

Affordable to make ($500 USD)

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Solution: Our playground design

Use local and recycled

materials

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Solution: Our playground design

Built using local methods

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Solution: Our playground design

Built quickly: 1-2 weeks

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Solution: Our playground design

Easily repaired using local

materials and labor

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Successes to date

Started in 2007, in Mae Sot, Thailand

along the Burmese border

Designed and built over 50 playgrounds in Southeast Asia

Benefiting over 7000 students, for

mostly the children of Burmese

refugees

Working with NGOs to build 30

playgrounds in Cambodia & Laos and

17 in Peru

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Our operational model will focus on knowledge transfer.

Instead of building playgrounds ourselves, we focus on training

people how to organize and build playgrounds.

This strategy creates a multiplier effect that exponentially

increases the playgrounds that are built.

Operational Model

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 Training for Groups

Operational Model: Training for Groups

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Step 1:

Go Play! teaches a projectmanager from an NGO

how to build a

playground.

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Step 2:

The Project Managerthen oversees the

construction of 10

playgrounds.

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Step 3:

These 10

playgrounds (for

schools with over

100 students) will

help over 1000

students.

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Scale up operational model:

Train a total of 5 ProjectManager from different

NGOs. Each NGO commits to

building 10 playgrounds.

x5

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´Children need the freedom

and time to play. Play is not aluxury. Play is a necessity.µ

Kay Redfield Jamison

American Professor of Psychiatry

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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