Right To Play and UNICEF Pakistan join forces to benefit 77,000 children
TORONTO, CANADA (Sept. 1, 2011) – Right To Play is pleased to announce a new agreement with the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Pakistan that will benefit 77,000 children and youth.
With special focus on girls’ inclusion in sport and play, the Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA) will be implemented over a 16-month period in 300 schools across seven districts of the Sindh province in southern Pakistan.
Right To Play expanded its Pakistan programs into the Sindh province in 2010 to help address the rehabilitation of children and youth affected by the floods that devastated the region that year.
The agreement was developed regionally by Right To Play Pakistan, with support from the organization’s international headquarters, located in Toronto, Canada.
Right To Play President and CEO Johann Olav Koss, who visited Right To Play Pakistan in June, calls the nearly $1 million joint project “a great result in local partnerships by Right To Play Pakistan.”
Right To Play first began programs in Pakistan in 2002. The Right To Play Pakistan Country Office was established in 2006 and is currently reaching 80,000 children in four project locations: Peshawar, Mardan, Menshera in the northern Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province, and Thatta district of Sindh province.
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