See our new website at www.playgroundideas.org for designs, resources and more!
Goplay! is now fully tax deductable in Australia and the US. Please donate or for more information about how this work see here.
To donate, please click HERE and help us to provide these Playspaces for children worldwide that we in the west take so much for granted.
Most of us dont often think about having a place for children to play because we are so used to having places to play! Play for children is such a fundamental part of a childs life that we often take it for granted. Unfortunately, There are are children all over the world who have no safe place to play and many spend their time in vacant lots full of broken glass or dangerously close to roadsides or in areas full of mosquitos putting them at risk of malaria and dengue fever. GoPlay is trying to change that in big and small ways.
Building safe, solid playgrounds that work in places where there is often no money and little emphasis on children is not always easy. Add to this, monsoon rains and searing heat. mix this with hundreds of children, full of energy playing on their playground everyday and you start to get an idea of what we are working with. Through all these challenges, Goplay works with all comers, we allow all of our ideas to be given freely so their children can play.
GoPlay has always had a strong value that westerners should not live off the money that is given to developing nations, and that is why we offer the chance to donate here. every week we recieve new emails from good hearted people wanting to build and we try to help them all. Currently, we have so many requests that we have had to start a waiting list to deal with them all. Your donations will help get the right people on board to do the training and spend the time to help these amazing people who give their time to plan and build some amazing spaces.
Please click HERE and help us to provide these Playspaces for children worldwide that we in the west take so much for granted.
Below are some comments from the people who we have or are helping. Please consider being generous so we can continue this important work.
“It is great to hear about what you are pioneering, there is certainly a huge need.”
“We’ve only built one playground thus far. We have two volunteers interested in building playgrounds at their site. ….. Building the playground was a lot of fun. I think some of the community members weren’t as interested in the safety measures GoPlay! takes, but I was still very pleased with the results…”
Cameron Miller, Peace corps volunteer
“Thank your for your appreciation of our playground designs in Mexico. I looked at your designs and website and am likewise very impressed with the playgrounds and toys you are building for refugee and migrant schools on the Thai-Burma border. Your approach and ours indeed have a lot in common.”
David Werner, Nothing about us without us. Veteran of developing world playgrounds for children with disabilities
“In the last few days, I was doing my research on the web and I found “playgroundideas” site. I like it very much -no plastic, finally. Most of playgrounds (in Bangkok) I have seen/visited so far are indoor playgrounds using toys that made of plastic. Personally, I don’t feel/right seeing kids playing with plastic toys.
In Bangkok, there are very few outdoor playgrounds, parks, a quality place where children can go to play or to learn. It made me think whether it is possible to build one on my own.”
Chalisa Nuhong, concerned Bangkok resident
“I have found Marcus’ work inspirational and what I like is that it is done with the community not for the community and the ‘bang for buck’ is truly amazing when you see what some of the other organisations are doing here in terms of cost vs output…”
Penny Thame, Education Development Coordinator ZOA INGO
“I have had a look at your photos and love the things you are doing – wonderful colours and ideas.”
Hattie Coppard, Snug Playground, www.snugplay.co.uk
“Your ideas are excellent. I will show them to my friends in Africa and consider ‘enhancing’ one of the school playgrounds that we work with.
Ben Markham, Empower playgrounds
“Really cant tell you how much i have just enjoyed looking at all your pictures. I love just how many tyres you guys have managed to fit into each playground! Its truely brilliant, the structures you have come up with are fantastic.”
Tom Gill Director, East Africa playgrounds
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