I am a second-year student at Leeds Beckett university studying childhood development and play. In June 2023 i will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Uganda with a group of 19 other volunteers to help build a playground in a school for disadvantaged children from an empty field up. Play is essential for children and every child develops to play how they want to play. Play allows children to learn and develop essential life skills and nurture their physical, psychological and social development through the language they know best - Play