Being able to play is a necessary part of growing up and developing,helping to support healthy, active and sociable children. But for manychildren in rural areas, especially for the 700,000 living in poverty,the remoteness of where they live, lack of infrastructure and transportcan mean play resources are very limited or out of reach.
Children in villages and rural areas are often perceived to have all theopen space they need to play in. But the real and perceived dangers offarm life, traffic, and threat from strangers all contribute to parents'unwillingness to let children roam and play unsupervised. Add to thisthe reality of isolation many rural children experience, and the needfor intervention to ensure children are able to play safely isundeniable.
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