Learn more about the impact Just Play has in emergencies. The Just Play Emergency Programme was shortlisted for the Beyond Sport Innovation Award in 2016. The Just Play Programme is delivered in 11 Pacific Island countries and India, with the generous support of the Australian and New Zealand Governments, Football Federation Australia, the UEFA Foundation for Children and UNICEF. Visit the OFC Just Play Programme website or Facebook page for more information. One of the biggest challenges facing the programme today is – How can we adapt our emergency programming model to reach children on remote islands throughout the Pacific, who do not have access to internet and mobile devices? Without face-to-face delivery, the programme is being challenged to see how it can once again adapt to ensure that every day is a Just Play day for children across the Pacific. Since it was launched, Just Play has helped more than 16,000 children to emotionally recover following natural disasters in Fiji, India, Tonga and Vanuatu. With this understanding, Just Play delivers its programme in phases, following the natural evolution of the response and recovery process. Helping children to feel safe and return to their normal routine after any emergency is an important part of the recovery process.
With support from partners like the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), coaches are also trained to identify and refer children who need additional support to recover. Where safe places in their community are for them to play, learn and find extra support after a natural disaster.īy encouraging children to share their experiences through storytelling and drawings, Just Play coaches help children to understand how their community will recover.Understand the importance of handwashing.
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How to make sure their drinking water is clean.With a ball, a coach and a safe place to play, Just Play is used at times of emergencies as a unique communications platform, teaching children, in remote island locations: In an area of the world where access to information is restricted by poor internet, television and radio penetration, and vast distances – half a million children are spread across 17.2 million square kilometers of ocean – programmes like Just Play are extremely important. Using Just Play’s existing network of coaches, schools and communities, the newly developed emergency programme, allowed Just Play to quickly adapt and respond – using football to support the emotional recovery of children following the cyclone. In 2015, OFC developed and delivered the Just Play Emergency Programme as part of the Vanuatu government’s consolidated response to Tropical Cyclone Pam – a category 5 super storm, which affected more than half the country’s population, including 82,000 children spread across 22 islands. Ensuring that programming models are versatile and can be delivered on a regular basis and in times of need, is critical. With the possibility of devastating tropical cyclones between November and April annually, volcanic eruptions, flash flooding, landslides and earthquakes, the region is on constant stand-by to respond to states of emergencies for any number of countries, at any time. We think that's something pretty awesome.Long before the coronavirus arrived, Just Play, a Sport for Development programme designed and delivered by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in the Pacific region, has been helping children to recover from emergencies using football.Īs the most disaster-prone region of the world, the Pacific has been affected by more than 50 natural disasters since 2009.
Now players will have the opportunity to play and do good at the same time.
For climate change we selected the Clean Air Task Force, for hunger The Hunger Project and for health Doctors without Borders.
After substantial research we settled on three charities for players to donate to, where not only we believe every dollar donated will be the most impactful, but also where players can learn the most about each cause. We decided on a list of causes that we believe every human in the world will be passionate about: Climate Change, Hunger and Health. Let’s allow players to donate their earnings to a charity of their choice and we will - naturally - match every dollar they give. More importantly we also believe that every human wants to help make the world a better place. We consider this a new paradigm in digital entertainment and our part in trying to build a more fair world. JustPlay enables players around the world to be rewarded daily for the time they invest in playing games they love.
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