About NGO:

Toybank envision a world where all children have a happy and healthy Childhood. Toybank essentially believes that children from all backgrounds have a right to live a joyous childhood and have an inherent Right to Play.

Toybank Interventions:

1. Sensitization Workshops: We hold these workshops in various elite schools, colleges, corporate offices, etc. so as to spread awareness about the Right to Play for children and other issues of children.
2. Collection - Toy Wrapping - Distribution sessions: Toybank volunteers help us collect toys from their housing societies, corporate offices, clubs, etc. and help us sort these toys according to age and category and gift-wrap the toys for children. Then we conduct fun events in NGOs and gift the toys to the children.
3. Toy Libraries and Play Centers: Toybank has started establishing play centre and Toy Libraries, where hundreds of children take benefits of the games in the Play centers and Toy Libraries.

Fund Usage:

We intend to spend the Marathon funds on our daily operations of Collection, wrapping and distributing toys. We will also spend some of the funds on establishing new Toy Libraries in urban and ural areas.

Impact:

Toybank not only conducts fun events for the children at avarious NGOs but also goes back after the distribution event to stay in touch with the kids and find out the impact of the toys in the children's life.

Here is one story of a child who is under Nirmaya Health Foundation - Rafiq, a 9 year old (name changed) - who works as a rag picker and does not go to school. He spends 10 hours of the day picking scrap from the Deonar dump yard. When asked about play Rafiq mentions that he does not play at all after he left school because he does not get time, but he loved to play bat ball because he wants to play like Sachin. After receiving a bat ball set from Toybank Rafiq and his friend spend at least two hours playing every day!

Like Rafiq and his friend, as many as 65 children of the NHF, Govindi centre got toys! Almost 60% of these children spend minimum of two hours of their time each day playing with the toys they have received from us.

Toybank will soon be setting up a play centre for the kids in that area and thus will be further engaging them into constructive play.

Page Url :
http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo145_the_opentree_foundation.htm

Founded Year: 2009

Cause category: Children

Our Supporters

• Toybank