Play It Forward
Play It Forward is our initiative to bring the power of playful learning beyond our walls and into wider communities.
The goal is simple: to create meaningful impact for teachers, families, and children by sharing our approach to play-based learning.
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Through workshops, events, digital resources, and partnerships, Play It Forward reflects our core values while adapting our methods to meet the needs of each community. It’s about inspiring others, spreading joyful learning, and showing how play can transform education and everyday experiences for children everywhere.
Read to Rise with the Parinaam Foundation
We’ve partnered with Parinaam Foundation to support their Academic Adoption Program, which reaches over 3,000 children from migrant communities in Bengaluru. The program helps children stay in school, build confidence, and grow into economically empowered individuals.
Through this collaboration, Papagoya is training Parinaam’s Field Coordinators to run engaging, child-centered sessions, bringing playful learning approaches directly to the children who need them most. Our wider community of educators and parents also volunteer their time, adopting communities and supporting Field Coordinators in facilitating these sessions, helping extend playful, meaningful learning to even more children.
International Day of Play at Sabha Blr
We partnered with Sabha to host a community day of play, an open, child-led play space designed for children, especially for the children from the community around the venue. Over 60 children came together to build, paint, create, and explore without instructions or expectations. The day was a reminder of what becomes possible when children are trusted and given room to imagine: strangers collaborated, new friendships formed, and simple materials sparked big ideas.
Playbook: Access for Educators
As part of our commitment to making play accessible to all, we also offered tickets to a number of organisations working with children and underserved communities. This allowed them to send their teachers and staff to Playbook at no cost, ensuring that meaningful, hands-on learning could reach educators who might not otherwise have the opportunity to attend.
By opening our doors in this way, we were able to welcome a diverse group of practitioners, strengthen connections across different education ecosystems, and bring the power of play to classrooms far beyond our own.