Celebrating International Day of Play — Reimagining learning through play

Many systems still treat play as a distraction from “real” learning. Marking the UN’s Protect Play, Protect Childhoodtheme, this session bring together Ahona Krishna (Leadership for Equity, India), Philip J Hawkins (Apprender, UK) , Lord Acquah (Sabre Education, Ghana) and Pamela Akinboboye (Nurturing Early Childhood Community Initiative, Nigeria) to explore how play should be woven into programme design and delivery in low-resource settings and what must be safeguarded (in terms of time, space, quality) for it to scale.

The session will be moderated by Priyanka Handa Ram (Learn to Play), and will also feature a case study from its programme in Botswana exploring how play-based learning becomes embedded in communities: through trust, women’s leadership, and local ownership.