Our Vision: A world where all children are empowered through Conscious Play™
Driven by the ethos that it’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men (and women), since 2004, The Opentree Foundation’s flagship project Toybank—Development through Play has been providing safe play and learning spaces to at-risk children to keep them on-track with their mental and behavioral well-being.
With a presence in 12 districts across Maharashtra, Toybank impacts 60,000+ children through 645 Support Groups, which were set up digitally in response to Covid-19. Pre-pandemic, our support to the children was through 420+ physical Play2Learn centres.
With the onset of the pandemic, we quickly pivoted to a digital mode of delivery, ensuring that students continued to meaningfully engage with play and learning for 4-5 hours a day. Since 2022, we have now moved to a Hybrid model (digital and in-person) across all our Play centres.
Our Conscious Play™ approach has the ability to build resilience and life skills to counteract probable negative environments, which enables children to make better choices that support positive development and result in building well-rounded adults. Our program is anchored on:
i) The development of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
ii) Development of integral 21st Century Life Skills like Critical Thinking
iii) Development of Cognitive skills