Community Upliftment Through Learning To Play By Lorraine Kinnear
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he role of a parent or caregiver is to excite a boundless sense of curiosity about life in their child so they approach life with an excitement bagged with awe and inquisitiveness. Through a plethora of tools and resources, Learn to Play creates an environment of creativity and wonder in children while empowering mothers to help shape them for success. Learn To Play (LTP) is an international initiative and a leader in global Early Childhood Development (ECD). It
was founded in 2017 to inform holistic, community-based solutions across the world. Over the last two years, Learn To Play has been featured on HundrED's 100 most impactful and scalable global education innovations and is one of the 12 most impactful parental engagement programmes. The program is built on sustainable development principles of empowering young minds from the grassroots. The Founder and Chief Energy Officer of Learn To Play, Priyanka Handa Ram, shares how she began the Learn To Play, 'Ithute Go Tshameka', (translated into the Setswana language)
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