ChildPlayInternational.org
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Child Play International
Description
The aim was to provide a place where the sick children and their mothers could relax and be guided into some anxiety-free play in the course of their otherwise sterile hospital day. There are now five of these playrooms in different hospitals in Buenos Aires, including the largest and newest one, and they are about to celebrate a 25 year anniversary.
Since 1982 there has been an umbrella organization in Buenos Aires called "Juego y Vida", which brings together and supports the hospital playroom coordinators and workers. Then we broadened our help to other congenial projects aimed at helping children to play. On a couple of occasions "Juego y Vida" had some extra money (thanks to CIDA grants) and helped provide a play-based child care centre for the staff of a children's hospital, play materials for day care centres in other towns, for an after-school program, and for a young people's sport facility.
We have been participating as part of a consortium in a big project with CIDA funding, aimed at introducing the "child-centred, play based" model of child care to two networks of children's services in an impoverished suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Contact
- Child Play International
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- Ottawa Ontario
- US K1V 7C2
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- +1.13523372
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