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Coaches Across Continents: Education Outside the Classroom

We are a global leader in sport for social impact, focusing on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to address issues such as: female empowerment, including gender equity; conflict prevention, including social inclusion; health and wellness, including HIV behavior change; Child Rights; and other life skills. We use our award w

inning Hat Trick Initiative and Self-Directed Learning Methodology to Design, Develop, and Implement partnerships to create community Legacies across 6 continents and 132 countries. See our 2020 Annual Reviewhttps://coachesacrosscontinents.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CAC-2020-Annual-Review-HIGH-RES.pdf

06/26/2026

Coaches Across Continents is proud to announce a new partnership with Shafusa Mamfe in Cameroon.

SHAFUSA was founded by three coaches who attended CAC training in 2013. Inspired by what they learned, they returned home and created an organisation using football as a tool for social impact.

For over a decade, they have continued to apply that training to deliver community programs and create lasting change through the game.

This partnership celebrates 13 years of inspiration turning into sustained action and impact.

06/25/2026

As we continue to spotlight our Inclusion Campaign this month, we're proud to celebrate the work of our partner, Center for Sports and Growth, in Kenya.

This World Refugee Day, they highlighted how sport can bring together girls from refugee and host communities, creating opportunities to play, learn, and grow side by side. Through teamwork, barriers of nationality, ethnicity, religion, and culture are replaced with understanding, respect, and friendship.

This is what inclusion looks like in practice.

At CAC, we believe every child deserves the opportunity to belong, participate, and thrive. Whether supporting refugees, girls, children with disabilities, or other underserved groups, play has the power to create spaces where everyone is valued and included.

We're grateful to Centre for Sports and Growth for being an active partner in advancing inclusion through sport and for demonstrating how purposeful programmes can strengthen communities and change lives.

06/24/2026

“Perfection can’t be trusted.”

So much of what we see online today is edited, filtered, or AI-generated—making it harder to know what’s real.

That was the focus of CAC’s Global Resource Call on Authenticity, AI, and Digital Storytelling, where coaches and partners explored how we can use AI to be more efficient without losing authentic voice.

A key takeaway: audiences don’t connect with perfection—they connect with truth.

For Ritah from Girly Network, the session highlighted how AI can save time while keeping storytelling real and meaningful.

“What stood out most was not the technology itself, but the willingness of organisations to learn from one another.”

At CAC, these calls are spaces for shared learning, reflection, and strengthening real voices across our global network.

06/23/2026

“I often think about which games to play next… even before I sleep. My sessions are on Saturdays but my excitement starts from Monday”

For Samiksha, a CAC Community Purposeful Play Coach with SOCCH in India, play is more than games—it’s a safe space for learning, openness, and change.

Through her sessions, she supports girls’ menstrual health education and helps normalise conversations around periods. One small shift—like openly carrying sanitary pads—becomes a powerful step toward inclusion.

Because when menstruation is normalised, girls are not excluded from play.

SOCCH NGO

06/22/2026

Global Day of Play 2026 | August 27
"How should we celebrate?"

This is one of the most common questions we receive from coaches and organizations.
The answer is simple.
There is no single way to celebrate the Global Day of Play.
Every community is different.
Every organization is different.
Every celebration is different.

You may simply create time and space for children and young people to play.
Some organizations may organize a large community event.
Some may deliver a Purposeful Play session at school.
Some may bring together families, coaches, and community members.
Others may use play to explore topics such as inclusion, wellbeing, climate action, or child rights.
You might even create a play session for your staff, volunteers, teachers, or community leaders.

After all, play is not only for children.
Play helps people connect, learn, laugh, reflect, and build stronger relationships at every age. It can create opportunities for learning, strengthen communities, and bring people together around shared experiences.

At CAC, we believe the most meaningful celebrations are those that reflect the needs, strengths, and ideas of the local community.
As a Purposeful Play for Development organization, we know that play can be much more than an activity. Through play, children, young people, and adults build relationships, develop confidence, strengthen life skills, explore new ideas, and learn together.

💭 How is your organization planning to celebrate Global Day of Play 2026?

Share your ideas in the comments below.

06/18/2026

We are proud to see our partner Youth Relief Development Program YRDP-Kakuma, championing inclusion through the power of play.

Play is more than recreation - it is a powerful tool for healing, connection and social inclusion. Every child deserves the opportunity to be seen, heard, valued and included.

06/17/2026

"Play isn't just for fun."

That was one of the biggest takeaways from a recent CAC Purposeful Play Coach Education Training in Chhattisgarh, India.

Over the course of the programme, 37 Physical Education teachers discovered how simple games can become powerful tools for teaching life skills, promoting inclusion, strengthening safeguarding practices, and helping children build confidence and leadership.

Many left with plans to introduce more play-based learning in their schools becoming CAC Local Purposeful Play Coaches (LPPC's)

💬 "I learned how to make sessions more engaging through Purposeful Play and active participation."

💬 "Children develop skills, confidence, and enjoyment more effectively when activities are fun, engaging, and designed with clear learning objectives."

For Rajeev Kumar Singh, who led his first Onfield Purposeful Play Coach Education Programme as a National Purposeful Play Coach, the experience reinforced a powerful truth:

When we change the way coaches see play, we change the way children experience learning.

06/15/2026

SAVE THE DATE | Global Day of Play 2026

📅 August 27, 2026

What happens when children are given the time, space, and freedom to play?

Children make friends.
Young people find their voice.
Communities build connections.
Learning happens in unexpected ways.

Founded by Coaches Across Continents in 2021, the Global Day of Play celebrates play as more than fun — but as a powerful tool for connection, confidence, learning, and joy.

On August 27, coaches, organizations, educators, families, and young people from around the world will come together to celebrate the power of play.

Sometimes the simplest game can create the biggest conversation.

👉 How does play create opportunities in your community?

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