For more than 20 years, Right To Play has worked in some of the most difficult and dangerous places on earth to help children to stay in school and graduate, resist exploitation and overcome prejudice, keep themselves safe from disease, and heal from the harsh realities of war and abuse.
It all began with a boy in a long sleeve t-shirt…
It was only a few months before the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, when Norwegian speed skater Johann Olav Koss led
a humanitarian trip to the newly formed African country of Eritrea. There, he came face-to-face with the realities of life in a country emerging from decades of war.
As children played amidst burned out tanks, surrounded by the images of war martyrs, one boy stood out and crystallized
an idea for Johann that would write the future of Right To Play.