The Recreation Project
The Recreation Project
Location : Email : INFO@THERECREATIONPROJECT.ORG

our mission + vision

We envision a world in which all children fulfill their limitless potential.

Our mission is to prepare young people to thrive through outdoor adventure and transformative play.

our model

Our program model is built on evidence based approaches to positive youth development and user-centered design with our community in Northern Uganda. Over ten-years, we have honed a model that provides youth with resilience education training delivered via outdoor adventure and play, opportunities to engage and give back to their community, and healthy relationships with peers and mentors. Additionally, our model provides parents and guardians with tools and information to support their youth to fulfill their potential. Finally, our model invests in laying the groundwork for safe and healthy family and community relationships empowering families and communities to take ownership of their responsibility to invest in youth prepared to thrive.

why outdoor adventure +

 transformative play?

We believe that the best way to prepare young people to overcome adversity is to expose them to experiences of controlled adversity. Experiences of controlled adversity allow us to simulate stress, learn how to recognize our emotions and practice responding to them, be vulnerable with those around us, and discover our own resilience and strength. Outdoor adventure and play provide opportunities for age-appropriate experiences of controlled adversity to young people from early childhood through adolescence. From noticing the power of positive communication in a game during P.E. class, to connecting experiences on the zip-line to the moments in life that require bravery and confidence, to venturing out on their first wilderness excursion, the experiences our students gain are the catalyst for owning their resilience and thriving.

climbing club
 

Climbing Club is a 15-week program targeting youth ages 16-24 who are out of school, many of whom were forced to drop out of school early due to do financial constraints at home. Groups of 20 youth from target communities come to The Recreation Project’s outdoor adventure center once per week over the course of three months. They learn technical climbing skills and valuable life skills. During Family Days, youths' parents or spouses are invited to join them at the outdoor center to see what they’ve learned, engage in dialogue and activities to foster a nurturing home environment, and try the high ropes activities together. The program culminates in a wilderness excursion during which students camp and repel down a 50m cliff. (In 2021, 120 youth and their families will graduate from this program)

primary school program
 

The Recreation Project integrates our 15-week curriculum in the Primary School curriculum in Northern Uganda. Working with partner schools, The Recreation Project delivers its full program to students in Primary Year 6 during the physical education period over the course of one school term. Schools identify focal teachers who help deliver the program and are trained in the curriculum over the course of our three year partnership at schools with the intention that The Recreation Project can leave a school and the teachers can sustainably deliver the program independently. The program includes three sessions with parents and an outdoor excursion to The Recreation Project's outdoor adventure site. In 2021, 400 youth and their families will graduate from this program).

children in conflict with the law
 

In partnership with local juvenile detention centers, The Recreation Project prepares young people and their families to thrive after release. Two afternoons per week, children on remand at their local detention center participate in a play-based life skills and social and emotional education program. Curriculum includes conflict management, social and emotional regulation, family dialogue, and more. The program culminates in a family day during which the parents are invited to join their child for a day of play and healing activities. (In 2021, roughly 180 youth and their families will graduate from this program, specific number dependent on number of children in facility).

partner programs
 

In addition to our core programs, we also deliver programs in partnership with other youth serving organizations. We tailor our life skills and resilience education curriculum to the needs of our partners. 

In 2021, we are partnering with Hashtag Gulu to deliver resilience education to street-connected youth in Gulu town. Hashtag delivers vocational training to street-connected youth and The Recreation Project supplements with soft skills development through weekly play-based trainings.

Additionally, we partner with MODO School of Fashion to deliver life skills and empowerment programs to students in MODO's tailoring vocational program. 

our values

kid-centered

Above all, ‬we are kid-centered. ‬Our programs are designed with and for children and youth ‬with the intention of building programs and outcomes around their biggest hopes and dreams. We value the safety, ‬protection, ‬and success of each and every individual ‬child and youth with whom we work.

impact-driven

We believe decision making should be guided by our participants’ qualitative reflections and our own rigorously collected data. We are committed to rigorously defining & testing our impact. ‬We learn from ‬existing research & key stakeholders to define desired outcomes and determine how to measure ‬them. ‬

peace

Founded in the wake of a decades long war in northern Uganda, The Recreation Project values peace. We understand that conflict and war leave marks on people and societies for generations. We want TRP to be a place of peace for the people we serve. This should be evident both in the environment we maintain in the forest and in the way we implement our programs.

humility

We know that in order to grow, ‬we must humble ourselves. Within our gates, both CEOs and children born in captivity jump from the same zipline platform. They are equal as participants in our programs. ‬‬Additionally, humility is how the TRP team operates. ‬Our directors help put equipment away and our facilitators help define our mission and vision.

excellence

We seek to learn and emulate excellence in all we do. ‬ ‬We strive to maintain internationally recognized safety standards for our ropes course and outdoor adventure activities. ‬We uphold child protection and safeguarding best practices based in current child development, ‬psychosocial, ‬and experiential education research.

integrity

We have a deep respect for the community we serve, ‬the generous donors who support us, ‬and our peers who seek to learn from our work. ‬It is our responsibility to work with integrity in all we do to ensure that we deserve their respect as well.

faith

We seek to transform lives, ‬inspired by the most transforming love of all. ‬We are faith-rooted, ‬not faith-based. ‬We don’t seek to evangelize; we strive to live and act with Christ as our example, ‬loving each individual who enters our gates.

 

Company Information
Contact Name: The Recreation Project
Contact Email: INFO@THERECREATIONPROJECT.ORG
Contact Phone: +256 781 766 846
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Since : 01-01-1970
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